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23-11-2017

Brian McCabe speaks with Geoff Hattersley about why mathematicians are a bit like artists, how something being funny doesn’t mean it’s light, and the process of imaginatively recreating the worldview of a child.

Brian McCabe: Number Crunching

Brian McCabe’s fascination with mathematics began with a poem, which led him to delve deeper into mathematical theory — discovering in the process some of the discipline’s more colourful practitioners.

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