Trying To Get One’s Head Around The Idea Of Math As a “Beautiful Art”

That math is an art, that one of its signature qualities is itsbeauty—these are ideas that continue to be articulated bymathematicians, even as non-mathematicians may wonderwhat that could possibly mean. I myself become wary when a mathematicianor scientist speaks about the beauty of her discipline, since it canseem vague and high-handed, if not wrong. – The Paris Review