Name: 【TED】Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality's riddle (Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality's riddle)
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ringing out across the 13th arrondissement in Paris.

A peasant, who was walking to market that morning,

ran towards where the gunshot had come from,

and found a young man writhing in agony on the floor,

The young man's name was Evariste Galois.

He was a well-known revolutionary in Paris at the time.

where he died the next day in the arms of his brother.

And the last words he said to his brother were,

It wasn't, in fact, revolutionary politics

But a few years earlier, while still at school,

he'd actually cracked one of the big mathematical

And he wrote to the academicians in Paris,

But the academicians couldn't understand anything that he wrote.

This is how he wrote most of his mathematics.

So, the night before that duel, he realized

to try and explain his great breakthrough.

So he stayed up the whole night, writing away,

And as the dawn came up and he went to meet his destiny,

he left this pile of papers on the table for the next generation.

Maybe the fact that he stayed up all night doing mathematics

was the fact that he was such a bad shot that morning and got killed.

was a new language, a language to understand

Now, symmetry is almost nature's language.

we can understand through the mathematics of symmetry.

In microbiology you really don't want to get a symmetrical object,

The swine flu virus, at the moment, is a symmetrical object.

But on a larger scale of biology, actually symmetry is very important,

because it actually communicates genetic information.

I've taken two pictures here and I've made them artificially symmetrical.

And if I ask you which of these you find more beautiful,

And if you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign

that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing

So symmetry is a language which can help to communicate

what's happening in the Large Hadron Collider in CERN.

Or what's not happening in the Large Hadron Collider in CERN.

To be able to make predictions about the fundamental particles

it seems that they are all facets of some strange symmetrical shape

And I think Galileo summed up, very nicely,

to understand the scientific world around us.

and become familiar with the characters in which it is written.

and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures,

without which means it is humanly impossible

But it's not just scientists who are interested in symmetry.

Artists too love to play around with symmetry.

They also have a slightly more ambiguous relationship with it.

Here is Thomas Mann talking about symmetry in "The Magic Mountain."

He has a character describing the snowflake,

and he says he "shuddered at its perfect precision,

found it deathly, the very marrow of death."

But what artists like to do is to set up expectations

I found, actually, when I visited a colleague of mine

And he took me up to the temples in Nikko.

And just after this photo was taken we walked up the stairs.

has eight columns, with beautiful symmetrical designs on them.

and the eighth one is turned upside down.

"Wow, the architects must have really been kicking themselves

when they realized that they'd made a mistake and put this one upside down."

And he said, "No, no, no. It was a very deliberate act."

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【TED】Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality's riddle (Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality's riddle)

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