The Secret Mathematicians: Salvador Dali - Marcus Du Sautoy
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Channel: Gresham College · 2015 · Education
Marcus Du Sautoy discusses some of the manifold ways that Salvador Dali, arch Surrealist, used the hard theorems of mathematics in his paintings. A brilliant examination of the interplay of Maths and the Arts. Marcus Du Sautoy OBE is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and he’s interested in how Maths and the Arts work together and how similar processes underlie them. This is a short extract from a Gresham Lecture. You can enjoy the lecture in full on our website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-secret-mathematicians
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