Ordinary people see beauty in complex mathematical arguments in the same way they can appreciate a beautiful landscape painting or a piano sonata—and you don't need to be a mathematician to get it, a ...

Average Americans can assess mathematical arguments for beauty just as they can pieces of art or music, research finds. The beauty they discerned about the math was not one-dimensional: Using nine ...

THE British philosopher and logician Bertrand Russell once wrote: “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.” ...

Crystals are known far and wide for their beauty and elegance. But even though they may appear perfect on the outside, their microstructure can be quite complicated, making them difficult to model ...

The beauty they discerned about the math was not one-dimensional: Using nine criteria for beauty—such as elegance, intricacy, universality, etc.—300 people had better-than-chance agreement about the ...