18th November: Art, Creativity, and Mathematics – Marcus du Sautoy

Discover the surprising ways that maths underpins human creativity in music, art, architecture, writing, and our sense of beauty.

About this Event

Beneath the music, architecture, design and even literature we humans create are patterns which arise from the seemingly unrelated world of maths — but where would we look, and how might we find them?The blueprints of this hidden code are everywhere: from the prime numbers and symmetry, to the fractals and hyperbolic geometry upon all of which nature builds the wonders of our universe — and so do human artists and designers. From neolithic stone circles to modernist architecture, from Bach to Radiohead, and from Shakespeare to Dada, it's always there.

Our guide to this hidden marvel is Mathematician, author, broadcaster and Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, Marcus du Sautoy who has spent a lifetime exploring such connections. His latest book, : How mathematics shapes creativity, looks to art,