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You could say the same thing about music notation; the beauty is not in the notation, but the objects the equations describe. In order to perceive the beauty,
by ykonstant 3y ago
You could say the same thing about music notation; the beauty is not in the notation, but the objects the equations describe. In order to perceive the beauty, you have to study the objects, not the notation.
- _a_a_a_ 3y agoOthers (mathematicians) can peer through the notation to the thing beneath. That's extremely difficult for me to do, and once I've done it I can see something interesting, but beautiful? No, that tree is intriguing but beautiful to me it ain't.
- kstrauser 3y agoI’ve stumbled across bits of program code I’d call beautiful: simple, understandable, clearly correct, and… elegant. Win I find them, I experience the same feelings as when seeing a beautiful painting. My wife’s like “why are you smiling and laughing at words on the screen”, but it’s not the words, it’s what they’re saying and how they’re saying it. That must be what a mathematician feels when they see a beautiful proof, or formula, or relation.