11:00am-12:00pm on Saturday 22 March
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Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Seminar Room 1, 20 Clarkson Road, CB3 0EH
Literature is full of strange worlds where normality is turned on its head. From the giants of legend to the tiny Lilliputians of Gulliver’s Travels, storytellers have played with ideas of dimension, size, and shape. But could fantastical creatures – like the giant spiders of Hogwarts, or the miniature Borrowers from Mary Norton’s classic books – exist in reality? And what would their life be like if they did? In this talk, Prof Sarah Hart (School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Birkbeck University of London), will explore what mathematics can tell us about being very small or very large, both in fiction and in real life.
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