Post #1733538
2026-04-27 14:05 UTC
A short #BookReview of ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’ in ‘Mathematics Magazine’ has been pointed out to me: https://doi.org/10.1080/0025570X.2025.2587000 (not open-access)
I am quite pleased by the reviewer's evaluation :-) ‘a very careful and absolutely thorough survey of the “rich heritage of scholarship” about both beauty in mathematics and the study of that topic’.
There was a more detailed review by Viktor Blåsjö in ‘TUGboat’ last year: https://doi.org/10.47397/tb/46-2/tb143reviews-cain (open-access)
#review #MathematicalBeauty #HistMath #HistSci
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@ajcain@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-27 14:06
The ‘Mathematics Magazine’ review said I was ‘very particular to consult original sources to verify quotations and claims’. I suspect there might have been a temptation to use the adjective ‘pedantic’ rather than ‘particular’. :-)