Ian Stewart, “The Joy of Mathematics” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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The Rainbow Is Not a Conjuring Trick
i don't think there's any serious evidence that being ignorant of the causes of things somehow spoils the effect. A rainbow is not a conjuring trick, it's a natural phenomenon. The mathematics is extraordinarily beautiful. And so it enriches the experience. It madem rich your experience they deron because you might later on make a connection between that ar symmetry or that particular perspective and something that you hadn't thought of. Oh, that's just like the rainbow. Isn't that really exactly like what we were doing before? That's really the way that i think research and further development of the field can actually happen. Yes, i meanit i can't prove, i'm
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