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  2. Mathematical beauty - Wikipedia

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    Mathematical beauty is the aesthetic pleasure derived from the abstractness, purity, simplicity, depth or orderliness of mathematics. Mathematicians may express this pleasure by describing mathematics (or, at least, some aspect of mathematics) as beautiful or describe mathematics as an art form, (a position taken by G. H. Hardy [1]) or, at a minimum, as a creative activity.

  3. Mathematics and art - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics has itself been described as an art motivated by beauty. Mathematics can be discerned in arts such as music, dance, painting, architecture, sculpture, and textiles. This article focuses, however, on mathematics in the visual arts. Mathematics and art have a long historical relationship.

  4. M. C. Escher - Wikipedia

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    M. C. Escher. Maurits Cornelis Escher (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmʌurɪts kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈɛɕər]; 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints, many of which were inspired by mathematics. Despite wide popular interest, for most of his life Escher was neglected in the art world, even ...

  5. Golden ratio - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, two quantities are in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities. Expressed algebraically, for quantities and with , is in a golden ratio to if. φ. where the Greek letter phi ( or ) denotes the golden ratio.

  6. Mathematics and architecture - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics and architecture are related, since, as with other arts, architects use mathematics for several reasons. Apart from the mathematics needed when engineering buildings, architects use geometry: to define the spatial form of a building; from the Pythagoreans of the sixth century BC onwards, to create forms considered harmonious, and thus to lay out buildings and their surroundings ...

  7. List of mathematical artists - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of artists who actively explored mathematics in their artworks. [3] Art forms practised by these artists include painting, sculpture, architecture, textiles and origami.

  8. Ethnomathematics - Wikipedia

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    Ethnomathematics. In mathematics education, ethnomathematics is the study of the relationship between mathematics and culture. [1] Often associated with "cultures without written expression", [2] it may also be defined as "the mathematics which is practised among identifiable cultural groups". [3] It refers to a broad cluster of ideas ranging ...

  9. Hamid Naderi Yeganeh - Wikipedia

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    Hamid Naderi Yeganeh (Persian: حمید نادری یگانه; born July 26, 1990, in Iran [ 1 ]) is an Iranian mathematical artist and digital artist. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] He is known for using mathematical formulas to create drawings of real-life objects, intricate and symmetrical illustrations, animations, fractals and tessellations. [ 5 ][ 6 ...