Symmetry in Music & Art

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The first examines the famous Beatles song Strawberry Fields Forever. This complex and odd song has a very interesting history. The complexities of the familiar final version can serve as a metaphor for thinking about the underlying structures and patterns that make up the macroscopic world we know.

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The second introduces the world of MC Escher, the famous artist who married exquisite draftmanship to mathematics & physics. These pictures have stimulated many viewers to think in a new way about patterns in the world around them.

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