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Painting with numbers

Marcus du Sautoy, a mathematician and Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, presents a series of short films for the Newton Channel explaining how the fundamentals of mathematics are crucial for understanding the world around us

5 April 2012

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    The Oxford mathematician takes us on a journey through the history of numbers, including the invention of zero and the taming of infinity

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