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WHAT keeps you turning the pages of a book long into the early hours of the morning? The Da Vinci Code, for example, grips you with an unexplained death and a secret the church has hidden for two millennia. How can a book about mathematics compete?

What the authors promise in The Equation that Couldn’t be Solved and Fearless Symmetry is mathematical beauty – to be more precise, a tour of the beautiful but mysterious world of symmetry. Stick with us, they say, and for a few hours of your time, we will show you a hidden world of…

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