Blueprints: How mathematics shapes creativity with Marcus du Sautoy

Sun Feb 15 2026 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm UTC+00:00

Whitla Hall | Belfast

NI Science Festival
Publisher/HostNI Science Festival
Blueprints: How mathematics shapes creativity with Marcus du Sautoy
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From the earliest stone circles to Mozart’s obsession with numbers to the radically modern architecture of Zaha Hadid, maths and creativity are interwoven across time and space. Whether we are searching for meaning in an abstract painting or finding patterns in poetry, there are blueprints everywhere: symmetry, prime numbers, the golden ratio and more.
Join award-winning mathematician and Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy as he looks to the arts to uncover the key mathematical structures that underpin both nature and human creativity. Drawing on his new book, Blueprints, du Sautoy explores how we make art, why a creative mindset is vital for discovering new mathematics, and how a fundamental connection to the natural world intrinsically links these two subjects.
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