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Uniformity is undesirable. Symmetry is immanent.

In everything…uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives the feeling that there is room for growth…Even when building the imperial palace, they always leave one place unfinished.—Japanese Essays in Idleness via Marcus du Sautoy Sautoy opens with a vignette on Galois‘s quest to revolutionize mathematics the night before he died in a …

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