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SUMMARY:The Importance of Being Peripheral - Professor John Barrow
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CONTACT:Emma Wenborn
DESCRIPTION:Professor John Barrow looks at how surfaces and boundaries sha
 pe strategies in nature. Superficiality matters. Sometimes it pays to mini
 mise your surface while at other times it pays to maximise it. How this is
  done is revealed by some simple mathematics. The insights take us from sh
 oaling fish to fractals\, the weightlifting world records\, and black hole
 s. Preceded by a reception 18.00-19.00 with Professor Barrow at the CUP bo
 okshop\, including 20% off books. For a ticket to the reception and a rese
 rved seat at the lecture\, please call 01223 766766.  
LOCATION:Lady Mitchell Hall\, Sidgwick Avenue
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