Creativity in Mathematics and the Arts - Marcus Du Sautoy

Professor Marcus Du Sautoy believes that the worlds of Mathematics and the Arts are much closer than we’re led to believe. In this short extract from his lecture on the mathematics that underpins some the work of the greatest artists, he explains how the ‘Eureka’ moment of understanding in the study of maths is similar to the joy of creation in the Arts.
This is a short extract from a Gresham Lecture. You can enjoy the lecture in full on our website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectu....res-and-events/the-s

Marcus Du Sautoy OBE is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and he’s interested in how Maths and the Arts work together and how similar processes underlie them.