Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2007
Pages: 1-17
Series: CMS Books in Mathematics
ISBN (Hardback): 9780387305264
Full citation:
, "A historical gaze at the mathematical aesthetic", in: Mathematics and the aesthetic, Berlin, Springer, 2007
A historical gaze at the mathematical aesthetic
pp. 1-17
in: Nathalie Sinclair, David Pimm, William Higginson (eds), Mathematics and the aesthetic, Berlin, Springer, 2007Abstract
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it gives the impression of also being beautiful. (George Boole, in MacHale, 1993, p. 107)
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Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2007
Pages: 1-17
Series: CMS Books in Mathematics
ISBN (Hardback): 9780387305264
Full citation:
, "A historical gaze at the mathematical aesthetic", in: Mathematics and the aesthetic, Berlin, Springer, 2007