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Radio 4,22 Sep 2005,14 mins

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The bagel, or torus, is not merely a good shape for baking - it's also a good shape for office complexes, code-breaking and maybe even universes. As one of the simplest building blocks in the relatively new and highly versatile subject of topology, the bagel is arguably the most important shape in modern mathematics.

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