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Experiencing meanings in geometry
pp. 58-83
Abstract
What geometrician or arithmetician could fail to take pleasure in the symmetries, correspondences, and principles of order observed in visible things? Consider, even, the case of pictures: those seeing by the bodily sense the products of the art of painting do not see the one thing in the one only way; they are deeply stirred by recognizing in the objects depicted to the eyes the presentation of what lies in the idea, and so are called to recollection of the truth - the very experience out of which Love rises. (Plotinus, The Enneads, II.9.16; 1991, p. 129)
Publication details
Published in:
Sinclair Nathalie, Pimm David, Higginson William (2007) Mathematics and the aesthetic: new approaches to an ancient affinity. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 58-83
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-38145-9_4
Full citation:
Henderson David W., Taimina Daina (2007) „Experiencing meanings in geometry“, In: N. Sinclair, D. Pimm & W. Higginson (eds.), Mathematics and the aesthetic, Dordrecht, Springer, 58–83.