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How mathematics predict the future, Marcus du Sautoy

Jan 23, 20191 hr 11 minSeason 1Ep. 74
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Episode description

Marcus du Sautoy is a writer, television host and mathematics professor at the University of Oxford. He is best known for hosting the BBC documentary "The Code", which explains basic concepts regarding the historical use and meaning of numbers. He says: "Some scientists want to discover a theory for everything, while I look at it from a different perspective, from another place: articulating some limits, establishing some questions that science was never able to answer."

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