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  1. A quote from Kiyosi Itô, mathematician and 1998 Kyoto laureate, born #OnThisDay in in 1915:

    ‘In precisely built mathematical structures, mathematicians find the same sort of beauty others find in enchanting pieces of music, or in magnificent architecture.’

    — Itô, 'My Sixty Years along the Path of Probability Theory'. 1998 Kyoto Prize lecture abstract [kyotoprize.org/en/speech/the-1]

    (One of innumerable testimonies indicating that the subjective experience of #MathematicalBeauty parallels that of visual or auditory beauty.)

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