{"id":3445,"date":"2015-04-12T01:45:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T05:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/2015\/04\/12\/what-makes-the-theory-of-relativity-so-acceptable-to-physicists-in-spite-of-its-going-against-the-principle-of-simplicity-is-its-great-mathematical-beauty-this-is-a-quality-which-cannot-be-def\/"},"modified":"2018-11-15T14:20:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T19:20:45","slug":"mathematics-why-the-brain-sees-maths-as-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=3445","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics: Why the brain sees maths as beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Google+ reshared post<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&quot; <b><i>What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical beauty. This is a quality which cannot be defined, any more than beauty in art can be defined, but which people who study mathematics usually have no difficulty in appreciating.<\/i><\/b> &quot; [Paul Dirac]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-26151062\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mathematics: Why the brain sees maths as beauty<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Import\u00e9 de <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104239776541827516598\/posts\/SeN1xpSZb1V\">Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google+ reshared post &quot; What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical beauty. This is a quality which cannot be defined, any more than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=3445\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3517,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}