Leonard Mlodinow - How is Mathematics Truth and Beauty?

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Are philosophy and mathematics linked? When mathematicians speak about their craft, why do they use terms of philosophy and art? What is it about mathematics that can penetrate trivial truth and reveal fundamental “Truth?” What are the characteristics of fundamental truth? What is it about mathematics that can elicit the description “beautiful”? Mathematical beauty is not always simple, not always symmetrical — but it is always revelatory.

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Leonard Mlodinow is a theoretical physicist, screenwriter, and author. He is known in physics for his work on the large N expansion, a method of approximating the spectrum of atoms based on the consideration of an infinite-dimensional version of the problem, and for his work on the quantum theory of light inside dielectrics.

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