Beauty /

Beauty challenges conventional approaches to the subject through an interdisciplinary approach that forges connections between the arts, sciences and mathematics. Classical, conventional aspects of beauty are addressed in subtle, unexpected ways: symmetry in mathematics, attraction in the animal wor...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Arrington, Lauren, 1981- (Editor), Leinhardt, Zoe (Editor), Dawid, Philip (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2013]
Series:Darwin College lectures ; 25.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Beauty and truth / Robert M. May
  • 2. Beauty and the grotesque / José Hernández
  • 3. Quantum beauty / Frank Wilczek
  • 4. The sound of beauty / Elizabeth Eva Leach
  • 5. Beauty and attraction: in the 'eye' of the beholder / Jeanne Altmann
  • 6. Beauty and happiness: Chinese perspectives / Jason Kuo
  • 7. Terror by beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives / Evgeny A. Dobrenko
  • 8. The science and beauty of nebulae / Carolin Crawford.