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Originally Posted by sjastro
Nothing to do with reality. A pure mathematician judges beauty in terms of simplicity and logic.
A geometric topologist (a special type of pure mathematician) is into one sided sheets of paper and hollow bottles with no insides.  |
Hi Steven;
Not having a go at you … I see (and appreciate) the points you're making .. I hadn't rotated around the various perspectives on 'scientific beauty' as much as I probably should have, before making my previous remark.
I sometimes think many, (not particularly mathematicians), anthropomorphise things, which clouds their objectivity.
As I think about it some more, mathematicians are probably the
least guilty of this!
Media personalities on the other hand … like … well … Brian Cox for example, actually make a living out of it !
Bert;
I agree with everything you said …
… and .. you may have noticed that I'm presently pondering the area of data modelling, and the correlations with reality we sometimes impose on the models.
Nature is easily able to make things complex … which seems to cause us many problems in trying to understand why!
Cheers