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Sat Feb 22, 2025, 11:56 PM Feb 22

Free ebook uploaded by author at the archive: Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty -- CC License.

by Alan J. Cain
Publication date 2024
Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International Creative Commons License
Topics mathematical beauty, aesthetics of mathematics
Collection opensource
Language English
Item Size 751.7M? (It's a 45MB PDF. Hit the PDF link)

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.

This ebook is optimally read as a PDF.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–Non-Commercial–NoDerivs 4.0 International Licence.

Thank you, Alan J. Cain!
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Free ebook uploaded by author at the archive: Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty -- CC License. (Original Post) usonian Feb 22 OP
Thanks for posting this. Jim__ Feb 23 #1
Wonderful - the small font version is also available erronis Feb 23 #2
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