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Blueprints review: Marcus du Sautoy’s new book is good on maths, less so on the arts

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Blueprints
Marcus du Sautoy (Fourth Estate (UK, out now); Basic Books (US, 16 September))

Marcus Du Sautoy  wants us to see mathematics and art as inextricably connected. “Both are creating ways to interpret, understand, and navigate our place in the universe,” he begins his new book, Blueprints: How mathematics shapes creativity.

I’m not sure who still doubts this, nearly a century after Albert Einstein and his violin; this book feels a little redundant in a time of ample high-profile collaborations between du Sautoy’s “two cultures” of emotions and…


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