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The Unreasonable Attractiveness of Mathematics to Artists and Scientists

  • Gelfert A
Springer International Publishing, (2017), 63-79
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57259-8_4
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Abstract

Mathematics, not least in popular writings on the topic, is often credited with a special affinity to beauty. For example, mathematical theorems are sometimes described as ‘beautiful’, or a particular proof may be deemed more ‘elegant’ than...

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Gelfert, A. (2017). The Unreasonable Attractiveness of Mathematics to Artists and Scientists. In Aesthetics of Interdisciplinarity: Art and Mathematics (pp. 63–79). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57259-8_4

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