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Q&A: The maths raconteur

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Barry Mazur, a mathematician at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has explored the literary side of mathematics. With the publication this month of Circles Disturbed, a collection of essays on mathematics and narrative that he edited with writer Apostolos Doxiadis, he talks about the overlapping realms of mathematics and the imagination.

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Hoffman, J. Q&A: The maths raconteur. Nature 483, 405 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/483405a

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