Beauty is the first
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. G. H. Hardy
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. G. H. Hardy
The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. G. H. Hardy
Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing. Danica McKellar
The perfection of mathematical beauty is such…that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent. D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty. D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in … Read more
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere … yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. Bertrand Russell
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. Bertrand Russell
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty. Bertrand Russell