| Aśoka Sena - 1975 - 392 pages
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| Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1905 - 564 pages
...work on esthetics, " Ueber Schonheit und Geschmack in der Malerei." P. 190. // is the very same taste. "Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth...perfection such as only the greatest art can show" (Bertrand Russell, The Study of Mathematics ) . P. 195. The Sacrifice of Silenus. Probably the revel... | |
| Education - 1968 - 980 pages
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| Bertrand Russell - Philosophy - 1910 - 202 pages
...him know no mathematics, and regard his opinion upon this question as merely a curious aberration. Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth,...greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltaticm, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is... | |
| Great Britain. Board of Education - Education - 1912 - 1048 pages
...the symbolisation of Mathematics, and once their eyes are open they may come to see something of its beauty — " a beauty cold and austere, like " that...perfection such as " only the greatest art can show."* ER GWATKIN. * Russell (Bertrand), op. cit., p. 73. THE PLACE OF MATHEMATICS IN THE EDUCATION OF GIRLS... | |
| Sir Francis Edward Younghusband - Convalescence - 1912 - 210 pages
...appreciates the stern sublimity of the mountains ; and in mathematics, likewise, according to some, not only truth, but supreme beauty - — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection — is to be found, as surely as in poetry. In... | |
| Great Britain. Board of Education - Mathematics - 1912 - 632 pages
...the symbolisation of Mathematics, and once their eyes are open they may come to see something of its beauty — "a beauty cold and austere, like " that of sculpture, without appeal to an}- part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, " yet sublimely... | |
| Oscar George Sonneck - Electronic journals - 1917 - 746 pages
...EDUCATION By EDWARD J. DENT Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without...our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of paintings or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest... | |
| Clarence Herbert Hamilton - Mysticism - 1916 - 100 pages
...modern mind experiences its mystical moment in values of truth and beauty. "Mathematics," he says, "rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme...cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure and capable of a stern perfection such... | |
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