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In his inaugural address as the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, mathematician Marcus de Sautoy stated:
Without maths we’re lost in a dark labyrinth. It’s the glue that binds scientific and artistic cultures. The language of numbers and symmetry is spoken everywhere.359
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Mollaghan, A. (2015). Conceptions of Harmony in the Work of John Whitney. In: The Visual Music Film. Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137492821_6
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