 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...  Artificial Dreams: The Quest for Non-Biological Intelligenceby H. R. Ekbia - 2008No preview available - About this book
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1905 - 564 pages
...work on esthetics, " Ueber Schonheit und Geschmack in der Malerei." P. 190. // is the very same taste. "Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth...only the greatest art can show" (Bertrand Russell, The Study of Mathematics ) . P. 195. The Sacrifice of Silenus. Probably the revel in honour of Pan,... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - Philosophy - 1910 - 202 pages
...him know no mathematics, and regard his opinion upon this question as merely a curious aberration. Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth,...perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltaticm, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone... | |
 | Great Britain. Board of Education - Education - 1912 - 1044 pages
...the symbolisation of Mathematics, and once their eyes are open they may come to see something of its beauty — " a beauty cold and austere, like " that...perfection such as " only the greatest art can show."* ER GWATKIN. * Russell (Bertrand), op. cit., p. 73. THE PLACE OF MATHEMATICS IN THE EDUCATION OF GIRLS... | |
 | Sir Francis Edward Younghusband - Convalescence - 1912 - 210 pages
...appreciates the stern sublimity of the mountains ; and in mathematics, likewise, according to some, not only truth, but supreme beauty - — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection — is to be found, as surely as in poetry. In... | |
 | Great Britain. Board of Education - Mathematics - 1912 - 632 pages
...the symbolisation of Mathematics, and once their eyes are open they may come to see something of its beauty — "a beauty cold and austere, like " that of sculpture, without appeal to an}- part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, " yet sublimely... | |
 | Robert Édouard Moritz - Mathematics - 1914 - 434 pages
...Conceptions and Methods in Mathematics; Bulletin American Mathematical Society, Vol. 9 (1904), p. 133. 1104. Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth,...perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - Electronic journals - 1917 - 746 pages
...EDUCATION By EDWARD J. DENT Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without...our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of paintings or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1916 - 570 pages
...the actual world"14 to a changeless, chanceless world of ideal objects. "Mathematics" [he writes,] "rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme...perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1916 - 502 pages
...actual world"14 to a changeless, chanceless world of ideal objects. " Mathematics " [he writes,] " rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme...perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone... | |
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