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Understanding science: what we cannot know
Understanding science: what we cannot know

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Acknowledgements

This week was written by Katie Chicot. The course is adapted from the book What We Cannot Know by Marcus du Sautoy.

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Figure 1: The Milky Way: AstroAnthony https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milky_way_nebula.jpg

Figure 2:

(a) Reinhard Genzel: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reinhard_Genzel.jpg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en;

(b) Andrea Ghez: Sipa US/Alamy Stock Photo;

(c) Sir Roger Penrose: Biswarup Ganguly https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roger_Penrose_9552.JPG https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

Figure 3: David Hilbert (1862–1943) Image: University of Göttingen

Figure 6: Fractions between fractions: adapted from https://www.basic-mathematics.com/density-property.html Basic-mathematics.com

Figure 7: Fraction grid: Cronholm144 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diagonal_argument.svg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

Figure 9: Dividing a chocolate bar: Hyacinth https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eye_of_Horus_square.png https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

Figure 10: Fractals:

(a) Romanesco broccoli: Ivar Leidus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Romanesco_broccoli_(Brassica_oleracea).jpg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en;

(b) lightning strike: José Eugenio Gómez Rodríguez https://www.flickr.com/photos/jegomezr/2926143475 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/;

(c) partial view of the Mandelbrot set: Wolfgang Beye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mandel_zoom_08_satellite_antenna.jpg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.en;

(d) an abstract computer generated fractal: Diep Hoang Hai/Shutterstock.com

Figure 11: Russian dolls: demidoffaleks/Getty Images

Figure 12: Koch snowflake: António Miguel de Campos https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Von_Koch_curve.gif

Figure 13: Sierpinski triangle: Beojan Stanislaus https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sierpinski_triangle.svg

Audio/Video

Video 4: Fractals in animation. Clip from BBC Two series from 2011. Marcus du Sautoy interviews Loren Carpenter. Collaboration with The Open University © BBC (2011)

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