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*A Financial Times and Waterstones Book of the Year 2025*
Many artists are unaware of the mathematics that bubble beneath their craft, while some consciously use it for inspiration. Our instincts might tell us that these two subjects are incompatible forces with nothing in common, but what if we're…
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1 author picked Blueprints as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love this book because it opened up doors in my mind, which I did not know they exist.
For a long time, I thought that I had a split set of ambitions. On one side, I was fascinated by mathematics and its connection to theoretical physics. On the other side, I was drawn to art, to live as part of the community of artists.
With this book, Marcus de Sautoy showed me in detail how art did pave the way to formal theoretical innovations, how my two sides are the same stupefying property of human exploratory understanding. To trust…
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