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The magical maze: Sunflowers and snowflakes
From the 1997 DVD companion:
This opening Lecture introduces the concept that far from being a dusty collection of rules about angles and equations, mathematics is the magic thread which binds our universe.
Maths
BBC
1997
Ian Stewart
57:22
Lecturer
Duration
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