Comment Mathematics is art too (Score 1) 462

by TimoT on Wednesday July 06, 2005 @01:20AM (#12991563) Attached to: Is Programming Art?

That there is a right and wrong answer does not matter. It is the choice of steps that take you there.

Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature... sublimely pure, and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

BERTRAND RUSSELL (1872-1970)

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