The Math Hiding in Plain Sight

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Group theorist Sarah Hart explores connections between math, nature and the arts including architecture, music, design and literature. Wherever she looks, Hart discovers hidden patterns and symmetries which appeal to our innate appreciation of order and beauty in the universe. Hart is the professor of geometry at Gresham College in London, where she delivers several public lectures per year. Read the full article : https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-theorist-who-sees-math-in-art-music-and-writing-20240112/ 00:00 Humans are detectors of hidden math 00:41 Group theory, the study of symmetry 01:00 Math in nature: Fibonacci sequences and the golden ratio 01:49 Symmetries in design, 17 patterns of wallpapers, and crystal structures 03:35 Connections between music and math - VISIT our Website: https://www.quantamagazine.org - LIKE us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuantaNews - FOLLOW us Twitter: https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine Quanta Magazine is an editorially independent publication supported by the Simons Foundation: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/