Hexagons Formed by Molecules and by the Minds of Wasps and Humans

Abstract

The geometric figure with six sides called a hexagon, that we draw on a sheet of paper, existed long before it was formed in our minds and was concretized on a drawing. Before humans and large mammals had populated the planet and before minute protozoa inhabited the Earth, the hexagons had arrived. They were part of the structure of atoms.

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