Frank Wilczek — Beauty as a Compass for Truth
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Mathematical Beauty
There's a remarkable overlap between the concepts of beauty that you find in art and literature and music. I remember almost a magical moment when i was speaking with one of my colleagues after a seminar, trying to figure out what this seminar meant. The equation almost wrote itselfand it was just so pretty that i knew it had to be correct. You say each of us is born to become an accomplished, if unconscious, practitioner of projective geometry. So explain why you are disameran most impressive abilities that e humans children do routinely without thinking about it,. Although they have to learn it, parts of it....
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