You start out with simple concepts,.. All of this beautiful… - Noam Elkies

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You start out with simple concepts,.. All of this beautiful edifice of geometry, for example, comes out of this configuration of lines and points... Think of the simple opening--dum dum dum dum!--of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. In music you start out with a trivial motif and it turns into this beautiful, intricate composition,... Again, it all stems from this small, very simple idea.

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Noam David Elkies is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University.

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Alternative Names: Noam D. Elkies • Noam David Elkies

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