Marcus du Sautoy
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43 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2013
last heard May 2013
Marcus du Sautoy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Welcome to our mathematical exploration of the magic flute and our musical journey through the world of mathematics.
I think a lot of people have talked about the connection between mathematics and music.
And what I wanted to do was to take an opera like the Magic Flute and explore those connections.
Because I think obviously music is highly emotional, but it's also got a lot of precision and mathematical structure in it.
And Mozart loved mathematics.
There are lots of examples of him playing with numbers and kind of shapes.
The Magic Flute, the last of his operas, is full of kind of numerical and geometric symbolism.
So I wanted to sort of take the audience looking through my eyes, or ears rather, of what I hear when I hear something like the Magic Flute.
It's interesting that Mozart's other operas are very much to do with the human condition.
Don Giovanni, Marriage of Figaro, they're very much set in the real world.
But the Magic Flute is a much more abstract piece.
It's a kind of rather a magical world.
And that, I think, gives Mozart the freedom really to play a lot of games.
Does anyone know the next number in this sequence?
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13?
21, yes.
If you read the Da Vinci Code, it's one of the things you have to crack in the Da Vinci Code.
These are called the Fibonacci numbers because you add the two previous numbers together to get the next one in the sequence.
That's the rule.
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