#47 - Mathematics, Beauty, Symmetry, and Hedgehogs

Mathematics as invention or discovery, definitions, purity versus application, bank balances and types of numbers, art and beauty, Euler’s formula, triangles and infinity, the flatness of the earth, balls and spheres, the hedgehog theorem, the Mandelbrot set, mandalas and Jesus, symmetry and simplicity, Sou Fujimoto, Ilya Prigogine & Isabelle Stenger’s ‘Order Out of Chaos’, architecture, putting a bow on things, dirt and art, Sarah Sze and art’s beginning and end, art as objects or environments, and awkward endings.  Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is a Switzerland-based contemporary artist from Sweden. Adrian Montgomery Ruf is a mathematician at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu athlete, and outdoor enthusiast from Berlin, Germany.  Recorded in Zürich on January 29, 2022. http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona