The Real World Is a Special Case

from The Art of Mathematics · host Carol Jacoby

Abstract math is at once about nothing and about everything. The structures it builds may represent numbers, real world objects, music, or things we can barely imagine. Here we look at group theory for numbers, music, Rubik’s cubes and beyond.

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