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Dalí also had a keen interest in natural science and mathematics.

This is manifested in several of his paintings, notably from the 1950s, in which he painted his subjects as composed of rhinoceros horn shapes.

According to Dalí, the rhinoceros horn signifies divine geometry because it grows in a logarithmic spiral.

He also linked the rhinoceros to themes of chastity and to the Virgin Mary.

Dalí was also fascinated by DNA and the tesseract ( a 4-dimensional cube ); an unfolding of a hypercube is featured in the painting Crucifixion ( Corpus Hypercubus ).