The British Museum’s new exhibition illuminates the captivating work of the nineteenth-century Japanese artist, Utagawa Hiroshige (from 1st May to 7th September 2025). He was fascinated by the natural ...

The two realized they were a good match, and decided to analyze aesthetic sensibilities within math as happens with other forms like art or music. “I had some diffuse notion about this ...

Our instincts might tell us that these two subjects are incompatible forces with nothing in common — mathematics ... precise logic and art being the realm of emotion and aesthetics — but ...

Scientists and mathematicians often describe facts, theories and proofs as “beautiful,” even using aesthetics to help ... beauty for both the math and the art. Samuel Johnson, a psychologist ...

Ordinary people see beauty in complex mathematical arguments in the same way they can appreciate a beautiful landscape painting or a piano sonata. Ordinary people see beauty in complex ...

Avalon/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Using math to understand something ... Abstract: A foundational question in art and aesthetics is if there are culturally and temporally transcendent ...

Second, aesthetic considerations provide both ... He is the author of the critically acclaimed "The Art of Mathematics" and numerous professional papers and reviews. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

The study also found that some participants were more receptive to art than others and were able to benefit more. This advantage could be predicted using a metric called "aesthetic responsiveness." ...

A new exhibit, "Brains and Beauty: At the Intersection of Art and Neuroscience," explores that question by examining how the brain processes aesthetic experiences. Stephanie Sy reports from ...

It solves a math problem but it is clearly aesthetic, too. It pushes you to think about something in a novel way, and so it stands on its own as a work of art, I think. Crockett Johnson ...