• What is mathematical beauty? What, if anything, distinguishes it from other聽kinds of beauty?
• What is the status of aesthetic judgments in mathematics? Are such judgments聽grounded in cognition of the properties of mathematical objects such as their聽symmetry or simplicity? Or do they rely on merely subjective responses聽particular to the perspective of the mathematician?
• Is mathematical beauty a genuine aesthetic category? Or is it reducible to non-aesthetic聽criteria such as, for instance, epistemic virtues? If not, does the聽phenomenon of mathematical beauty pose any problems to the traditional view,聽accepted by many aestheticians, that appreciation of the beautiful is directed聽towards sensible objects and employs our sensible faculties?
• Can aesthetic considerations play any legitimate role in mathematical or聽scientific theorising? Is there a connection between the elegance of
• mathematical formalism, e.g. the use of differential forms to express Maxwell’s聽equations or the use of group theory in quantum mechanics, and the truth of a scientific theory?
• Does the phenomenon of aesthetics in mathematics reveal any important聽analogies between mathematical and artistic practice? How, in particular, are we聽to construe the role of imagination in mathematics, and how does it compare聽with the role of imagination in the arts?

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