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    "pk": 27806,
    "title": "The Aesthetics of Mathematical Explanation",
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    "abstract": "Mathematicians often describe arguments as “beautiful” or\n“dull,” and famous scientists have claimed that\nmathematical beauty is a guide toward the truth. Do\nlaypeople, like mathematicians and scientists, perceive\nmathematics through an aesthetic lens? We show here that\nthey do. Two studies asked people to rate the similarity of\nsimple mathematical arguments to pieces of classical piano\nmusic (Study 1) or to landscape paintings (Study 2). In\nboth cases, there was internal consensus about the pairings\nof arguments and artworks at greater than chance levels,\nparticularly for visual art. There was also some evidence\nfor correspondence to the aesthetic ratings of\nundergraduate mathematics students (Study 1) and of\nprofessional mathematicians (Studies 1 and 2).",
    "language": "eng",
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        "url": ""
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology of mathematics"
        },
        {
            "word": "explanation"
        },
        {
            "word": "aesthetics"
        },
        {
            "word": "Reasoning"
        },
        {
            "word": "STEM education"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jt7617v",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Samuel",
            "middle_name": "G.B.",
            "last_name": "Johnson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Bath",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Stefan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Steinberger",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yale",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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