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What is it about mathematics that mathematicians employ the language of philosophy to speak about “truth” and the language of art to speak about “beauty”? What makes mathematical propositions true? What makes them beautiful. Conversely, can mathematical propositions be true without being beautiful and/or be beautiful without being true?
Karen Uhlenbeck is a mathematician and founder of modern geometric analysis. She is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Uhlenbeck is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she held the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair.
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