In honor of the upcoming annual seminar at the Institute of Mathematics, I work at, the Second Mathematics and Applications Seminar, December 6-7, 2017, here is a small collection of famous quotes that celebrate the beauty of mathematics:
“Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.” - Archimedes
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.” - Bertrand Russell
"The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics." - G. H. Hardy
"Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit." - Stefan Banach
"God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world." - Paul Dirac
"I enjoy mathematics so much because it has a strange kind of unearthly beauty. There is a strong feeling of pleasure, hard to describe, in thinking through an elegant proof, and even greater pleasure in discovering a proof not previously known." - Martin Gardner
"The beauty in mathematics is in its unreasonable effectiveness that allows us to observe our mental world and help us understand the nature of mathematics itself." - Josefina Alvarez [The beauty of maths is in the brain of the beholder on plus.maths.org]You may want to add another quote?
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