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Martin Rowson is a multi-award winning cartoonist, writer, illustrator, ranter, performer and poet. His work over the past 40 years has appeared in almost every publication you can think of apart from Private Eye and The Sun. A former chair
People have always found symmetry aesthetically pleasing and examples of it are seen in the earliest art. The Platonic solids have been known to humanity for millennia, some possibly even to Neolithic man, as can be seen in the carved stone balls found by archaeologists. This lecture will look at how we can understand symmetry using mathematics, and explore how the rules of symmetry can deepen our appreciation of beautiful works of art and design.
Roderick Swanston is a prominent lecturer, writer and broadcaster very much in demand. He has written and presented over a hundred programmes for the BBC such as the History of British Music, two series on Wagner and Verdi Voices and
Amanda Vickery is the prize-winning author of The Gentleman's Daughter (Yale University Press, 1998) and Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (Yale University Press, 2009). She has recently been appointed Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary
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