February 2026 posts on the aesthetics of mathematics

1 February 2026

For each day of February 2026, I intend to post here and on Mastodon a short interesting story/image/fact/anecdote related to the aesthetics of mathematics. This is an index of the posts:

1. Perfect numbers and aesthetics

2. Apollonius of Perga on beautiful theorems

3. Archimedes on the sphere and cylinder

4. Nicon, the sphere, the cylinder, and Pantheon on the sphere and cylinder

5. Circular numbers in antiquity and the middle ages