Towards the end of his life, in the 1970s and early 1980s, Dirac often said that mathematical beauty "is almost a religion to me".
The patterns that emerge from the simple rules may be considered a form of mathematical beauty.
Bertrand Russell expressed his sense of mathematical beauty in these words:
But the question about mathematical beauty is always this: Is it created or discovered?
Proofs may be viewed as aesthetic objects, admired for their mathematical beauty.
It must be harder to believe in serene mathematical beauties when you have dirty hands.
The book is partly a meditation on mathematical beauty, possibly a difficult concept for many Americans right now as they confront their tax forms.
For example, mathematicians enjoy simple proofs with a short description in their formal language (sometimes called mathematical beauty).
Nature was Data in a fine cloth, laced with a mathematical beauty.
Euler's identity is considered by many to be remarkable for its mathematical beauty.