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Free ebook uploaded by author at the archive: Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty -- CC License.
by Alan J. CainPublication date 2024
Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International Creative Commons License
Topics mathematical beauty, aesthetics of mathematics
Collection opensource
Language English
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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!
https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large
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