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ArticlePsyCh journal2022

Judgments of mathematical beauty are resistant to revision through external opinion.

Haoxuan Zhang, Semir Zeki

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Article in PsyCh journal, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Haoxuan ZhangLaboratory of Neurobiology, Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University College London, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7700-2229
Semir ZekiLaboratory of Neurobiology, Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University College London, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3812-6824

Funding

Leverhulme Trust RPG-2017-341
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We here address the question of the extent to which judgments of mathematical beauty (which we categorize as biological beauty) are resistant to revision through external opinion. A total of 100 mathematicians of different national and ethnic origins were asked to rate 60 mathematical equations for their beauty; after being presented a fictitious "expert rating," they were asked to re-rate the same equations. Results showed that the judgments of mathematical beauty had a high level of resistance to external opinion. This is in line with the resistance to revision of a judgments for other categories of biological beauty.

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JudgmentHumansMathematicsaesthetic judgmentsbiological beautymathematical beautyneuroaesthetics

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PMID35491015
PMCPMC9790661

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