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Forbidden Crystal Symmetry: Mathematics and architecture - Roger Penrose
Forbidden Crystal Symmetry: Mathematics and architecture - Roger Penrose
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Length:
55 minutes
Released:
Dec 4, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
World-renowned mathematician Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford University, describes how crystalline symmetries are necessarily 2-fold, 3-fold, 4-fold, or 6-fold.
Released:
Dec 4, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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