The beautiful math of coral – Margaret Wertheim

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Science writer Margaret Wertheim re-creates the creatures of the coral reefs using a technique invented by a mathematician — simultaneously celebrating the amazements of the reef and deep-diving into the hyperbolic underpinnings of coral creation.

Talk by Margaret Wertheim.