Form & Number

A History of Mathematical Beauty
Lisbon, 2024
Ebook, large format
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Ebook, small format
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Print version
Two-sided layout, most suitable for printing
Front cover of ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’
This book offers a history of beauty in mathematics and of the study of beauty in mathematics. Its intention is to examine the historical development of the experience of beauty in mathematics, of the influence of such experience both inside and outside mathematics, and of the scrutiny to which this experience has been subjected by mathematicians and philosophers.