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(2007) Mathematics and the aesthetic, Dordrecht, Springer.
If my teachers had begun by telling me that mathematics was pure play with presuppositions, and wholly in the air, I might have become a good mathematician, because I am happy enough in the realm of essence. But they were over-worked drudges, and I was largely inattentive, and inclined lazily to attribute to incapacity in myself or to a literary temperament that dullness which perhaps was due simply to lack of initiation. (Santayana, 1944, p. 238)
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-38145-9_2
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Borwein, J. M. (2007)., Aesthetics for the working mathematician, in N. Sinclair, D. Pimm & W. Higginson (eds.), Mathematics and the aesthetic, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 21-40.
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