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By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted October 17, 2018

Hannah Fry's face in a kaleidoscope. Screengrab from the programme

The ubiquitous Fry is on our screens again, with a programme about Platonism, on BBC Four.

In Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry’s Mysterious World of Maths, “Dr Hannah Fry explores the mystery of maths. Is it invented like a language or is it discovered and part of the fabric of the universe?”

Episode 1 is on the iPlayer for about three more weeks, and episode 2 of 3 is on tonight at 21:00.

By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted December 3, 2014

Theorem: You can turn any shape into a rabbit by adding a face, ears and a tail to it.

Proof (by construction): geobunnies.com

This is delightful. There’s a new school of Platonism, one which believes that not only do ideal shapes exist, so do the bunnies inside them.

Joy!