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strangerep said:You still seem to be thinking in terms of beauty-in-meaning, rather than visual beauty.
Actually, it's fascinating how high powered mathematicians like yourself and A. Neumaier (to name just 2 among others in this thread) perceive beauty-in-meaning where others do not, yet have trouble perceiving the visual beauty that others can. Other types of people (e.g., conventional artists) suffer the reverse -- they create beautiful pictures yet cannot even understand how basic percentages work.
mfb said:Now you have to show that it is either generally true in some way or defines something meaningful.
micromass said:I think most people would consider it true. I just don't get why this forum allows it...
Kevin McHugh said:No I don't. The rule was it has to be ascetically pleasing.
Greg Bernhardt said:
- The equation must be valid and true.
It is literally true, but not mathematically. I didn't really specifymicromass said:Yours isn't.
Greg Bernhardt said:It is literally true, but not mathematically. I didn't really specify
micromass said:This is the rule:
Yours isn't.
micromass said:I don't think it's true for everybody though...
Kevin McHugh said:Lighten up Francis
micromass said:I got to admit I'm pretty upset because you missed the ##dx##...
That picture reminds me of a joke that circulated during my high school German class: "In dieser Box ist viele Ratschidt gemixt."ChrisVer said:[...] Naturwissenschaften box (I love how this word tickles my tongue!
Don't get me wrong. I, too, can perceive beauty-in-meaning. Indeed, I'm sure I'd enjoy a brief Insights article explaining Micromass's entry more extensively.Shyan said:It seems most of the people actually feel the same as micromass about the equations but they either don't know it or don't want to admit it!
Heh, I see you are from the "Marie Curie" school of beauty and deportment. (IIRC, Einstein said that MC "never smelt the roses".)samalkhaiat said:“Beauty” is in “Usefulness” and “Simplicity”.
Ygggdrasil said:Since no one specified that the equation had to be a math equation, have a chemical equation:
Well, one must understand the meaning of the equation to see the beauty.strangerep said:Don't get me wrong. I, too, can perceive beauty-in-meaning. Indeed, I'm sure I'd enjoy a brief Insights article explaining Micromass's entry more extensively.
But this contest is about visual beauty, as Greg already explained.
TeethWhitener said:I actually considered something along these lines myself. Maybe Ru-catalyzed olefin metathesis, or Pd-catalyzed cross coupling. Something about those catalytic cycles reminds me of the factory scenes in Looney Tunes (plus, the metallacycles formed within the catalytic cycles strike me as sort of a chemical epicycle). I also find the syntheses of molecules like dodecahedrane and cubane to be quite beautiful.
TeethWhitener said:Well, if it's just aesthetics and not significance, then how about this:
[tex]1+\frac{1}{1+\frac{1}{1+\frac{1}{1+\cdots}}} = \sqrt{1+\sqrt{1+\sqrt{1+\sqrt{1+\cdots}}}}[/tex]