The result is interesting but as George suggests, not surprising. But as a way of rating the equations (Data Sheet 1), it is not a good statistical practice to present the list of equations in the same order to each subject. Also, among the rather small number of subjects (15), some were apparently grad students, who *usually* would not have enough experience with math to appreciate several of the equations. (Present company excluded!) (And one of my favorite equations, the Riemann functional equation for the zeta function — Equation 59 in the list of 60 — is written in perhaps its ugliest possible form, for some inscrutable reason. It’s much nicer when written as xi(s) = xi(1-s), where xi(s) := zeta(s)*gamma(s/2)/pi^(s/2).) Harrumph. —Dan On Feb 19, 2014, at 8:44 AM, George Hart <george@georgehart.com> wrote:
Funsters,
Perhaps not surprising to mathematicians, functional MRI shows that beautiful equations trigger the same physiological response in mathematician's brains as beautiful art or music:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0214/13022014-Mathematical-beauty-ac...
George http://georgehart.com/
P.S. My latest Mathematical Impressions video is on the beautiful math/music of change ringing: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/multimedia/mathematical-impressions-change-...
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