Beauty of math

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It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music.

Joshua Reynolds

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Interconnectedness of all things Harmony Beauty of math Nature of beauty Beauty

Speaker

Joshua Reynolds

Source

Discourses on Art

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1776 1770s 18th century

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Citation

Reynolds, Joshua. "Discourse VII." 10 Dec. 1776, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, UK. Lecture.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

Bertrand Russell

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Beauty of math Mathematics

Author

Bertrand Russell

Source

The Study of Mathematics The New Quarterly

Medium

Essay Magazine

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Russell, Bertrand. "The Study of Mathematics." The New Quarterly, Nov. 1907.

Current Citation

Russell, Bertrand. The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, edited by Robert E. Egner and Lester E. Denonn. Routledge, 2009, ch. 31.