Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- List of figures
- Introduction
- 1 Beauty and truth: their intersection in mathematics and science
- 2 Beauty and the grotesque
- 3 Quantum beauty: real and ideal
- 4 The sound of beauty
- 5 Beauty and attraction: in the ‘eye’ of the beholder
- 6 Beauty and happiness: Chinese perspectives
- 7 Terror by beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives
- 8 The science and beauty of nebulae
- Index
List of figures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- List of figures
- Introduction
- 1 Beauty and truth: their intersection in mathematics and science
- 2 Beauty and the grotesque
- 3 Quantum beauty: real and ideal
- 4 The sound of beauty
- 5 Beauty and attraction: in the ‘eye’ of the beholder
- 6 Beauty and happiness: Chinese perspectives
- 7 Terror by beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives
- 8 The science and beauty of nebulae
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Beauty , pp. xi - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013