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The essays in this book explore the ancient affinity between the mathematical and the aesthetic, focusing on the fundamental connections between these two modes of reasoning and communicating. From historical, philosophical and psychological perspectives, with particular attention to certain mathematical areas such as geometry and analysis, the authors examine the ways in which the aesthetic is ever present in mathematical thinking and contributes to the growth and value of mathematical knowledge.

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The essays in this book explore the ancient affinity between the mathematical and the aesthetic, focusing on the fundamental connections between these two modes of reasoning and communicating. From historical, philosophical and psychological perspectives, with particular attention to certain mathematical areas such as geometry and analysis, the authors examine the ways in which the aesthetic is ever present in mathematical thinking and contributes to the growth and value of mathematical knowledge.

This book includes the following essays:

A Historical Gaze at the Mathematical Aesthetic, by Nathalie Sinclair and David Pimm

Aesthetics for the Working Mathematician, by Jonathan M. Borwein

Beauty and Truth in Mathematics, by Doris Schattschneider

Experiencing Meanings in Geometry, by David W. Henderson and Daina Taimina

The Aesthetic Sensibilities of Mathematicians, by Nathalie Sinclair

The Meaning of Pattern, by Martin Schiralli

Mathematics, Aesthetics and Being Human, by William Higginson

Mechanism and Magic in the Psychology of Dynamic Geometry, by R. Nicholas Jackiw

Drawing on the Image in Mathematics and Art, by David Pimm

Sensible Objects, by Dick Tahta

Aesthetics and the Mathematical Mind , by David Pimm and Nathalie Sinclair

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9780387305264: Mathematics and the Aesthetic: New Approaches to an Ancient Affinity

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ISBN 10:  0387305262 ISBN 13:  9780387305264
Casa editrice: Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2006
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