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This episode of The Code began with Mr. Du Sautoy giving another example of mathematical principles in the real world. This example happens in northern Ireland where a small short line of rocks is arranged into odd hexagonal shapes. To highlight this principle further, Mr. Du Sautoy moved onto another example in nature which should be very close to home and that is bees. Bees make their hives out of a precious substance to them known as wax. Was, being very hard for them to produce, is put into the most efficient and space saving form as possible. This shape is again, the hexagon. When anything comes into the universe it tries to become the most efficient shape it can possibly be. An example that Mr. Du Sautoy gives is bubbles. Bubbles are …show more content…

However, when multiple spheres are put together they share common walls. These common walls can be perfectly straight and then become the next most efficient shape. So, when putting the most efficient singular shape together many times, it will eventually create a lot of hexagons. This is the reason for the exquisite looking beach and why bees chose to make their hives in the shape of hexagons. It is the most efficient shape that can be mass reproduced. Next, Mr. Du Sautoy moved onto the study of measuring the Earth and shapes, in other words geometry. The example Mr. Du Sautoy uses is that of mines. Deep into the Earth in Germany there are perfectly cubic shaped salt crystals. These crystals are created so perfectly because the atoms of sodium and chlorine are perfectly cubic. This translates into the larger crystals being perfectly cubic. Mr. Du Sautoy expresses how the Greeks seemed obsessed with five common shapes in geometry. When diving deep into atomic structure we see these shapes all over from viruses to salt. Next, Mr. Du Sautoy moved onto talking about a painter known as Jackson Pollock. Jackson Pollock was a famous artist from the mid 20th

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