8 math talks to blow your mind

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Mathematics gets down to work in these talks, breathing life and logic into everyday problems. Prepare for math puzzlers both solved and unsolvable, and even some still waiting for solutions.

Ron Eglash: The fractals at the heart of African designs
When Ron Eglash first saw an aerial photo of an African village, he couldn’t rest until he knew -- were the fractals in the layout of the village a coincidence, or were the forces of mathematics and culture colliding in unexpected ways?

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