Faculty of Arts Public Lecture Series 2026: Change the Order, and Everything Changes: Mathematics as the Art of Rearrangement

What connects winning the lotto, symmetries of shapes, preventing your bank details from being stolen, solving a Rubik’s cube, shuffling a deck of cards, and playing Sudoku?

This talk explores what is common to these topics and countless others throughout mathematics, from subjects studied at school like counting and shapes, to research areas like encryption and mathematical symmetries. No mathematical background knowledge is assumed.

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