Sunday, October 24, 2010

The Art of Math

Some nice stuff, via The n-Category Café about The Art of Math.

And a nice quote too:

‘If Venn diagrams can be thought of as the equivalent of kids’ crayon drawings, then category theory is more akin to the works of Picasso.’

Is this just a simile, or does it imply that the mathematicians took their inspiration, learned lessons from, the drawings of Picasso? I should really like to think it is the latter.

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