수학의 아름다움

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can
be perceived but not explained.  - Arthur Cayley

   The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's
must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit
together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no
permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics. - G H Hardy, A
Mathematician's apology

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme
beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without
appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous
trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a
stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. - Bertrand
Russell

 

"The mathematical rules of the universe are visible to men in the form of beauty.
John Michel",

한편 한 수학잡지에서 예전에 수학의 아름다운 정리들이라는 제목의 설문조사를 행한바가 있었고 그 요인들에 대한 설명
수학에서 가장 아름다운 정리들(1) : 설문목록 http://bomber0.byus.net/index.php/2008/09/25/767
수학에서 가장 아름다운 정리들(2) : 설문의 결과 http://bomber0.byus.net/index.php/2008/09/26/775