Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics.
From hair parts to the origin of the universe, how symmetry shapes our existence.
The mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson posed a big question about mirrors in one of his best-known books: Through the Looking-Glass (yup, Dodgson's pen name was Lewis Carroll). Natasha Gostwick of Storynory reads an excerpt that gets at the heart of the trouble: is mirror milk any good to drink? ...