Warning!! Next phrase could give u a "brain priapism" ;)
Warning!! Next phrase could give u a "brain priapism" ;) "What makes a mathematician is not technical skill or encyclopedic knowledge but insatiable curiosity and a desire for simple beauty." (Paul Lockhart, from "Measurement")
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty........ but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” -- Bucky Fuller
"... if nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty . . . to forms that no one has previously encountered, we cannot help thinking that they are 'true,' and that they reveal a genuine feature of nature." -- Werner Heisenberg
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty........ but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” -- Bucky Fuller
ReplyDeleteDavid Chako Oh..and that was symphony for my left lobe, danke :)
ReplyDeleteThere is no dichotomy nor contradiction between beauty and truth.
ReplyDelete"... if nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty . . . to forms that no one has previously encountered, we cannot help thinking that they are 'true,' and that they reveal a genuine feature of nature." -- Werner Heisenberg
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