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Title: Catarina Dutilh Novaes
The beauty (?) of mathematical proofs
Mathematicians often use aesthetic vocabulary to describe mathematical
proofs: they can be beautiful, elegant, ugly etc. In recent years,
philosophers of mathematics have been asking themselves what these
descriptions in fact mean: should we take them literally, as tracking truly
aesthetic properties of mathematical proofs, or are these terms being used
as proxy for non-aesthetic properties, in particular epistemic properties?
Starting from the idea that one of the main functions of mathematical
proofs is to explain and persuade an interlocutor, I develop an account of
the beauty (or ugliness) of mathematical proofs that seems to allow for a
reconciliation of these apparently opposed accounts of aesthetic judgments
in mathematics. I do so by discussing the role of affective responses and
emotions in the practice of mathematical proofs, thus arguing that the
aesthetic and the epistemic are intrinsically related (while not entirely
coinciding) in mathematical proofs.
When: Thu 23 Aug 2018 15:00 – 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney
Calendar: Current Projects
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* Kristie Miller- creator
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