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elegant: "the quality of being pleasingly ingenious and simple; neatness." definitely less subjective than beautiful. and it's not arbitrary - i've alluded to
by mlevental 7y ago
elegant: "the quality of being pleasingly ingenious and simple; neatness."
definitely less subjective than beautiful. and it's not arbitrary - i've alluded to an argument that can be made. i'm not going to spell it out because as usual no one on here is receptive anything that doesn't valorize stem.
- jjuel 7y agoBeauty: "a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight." So I cannot like the shape or form when I look at a proof or function? I cannot have my aesthetic senses pleased by looking at STEM field things?
- mlevental 7y agoi'm sorry but what is the shape or form of a proof? a function maybe - and calligraphy is certainly an art but what's wholly different from what the function encodes.
- tempWinHater 7y agoProofs have structure, i.e., shape or form.
- mlevental 7y agothey have a logical structure (claim, lemma, lemma, proof, etc.). they do not have a shape in the sense that the person i responded to intends.