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A Hairdresser Solved a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Hairstyle Mystery
DEA PICTURE LIBRARY//Getty Images When Janet Stephens isn’t cutting or coloring someone’s hair, she’s reconstructing the hairstyles of the ancient world. A chance trip to the Walters Art Museum turned the Baltimore hairdresser into an amateur experimental archaeologist when she noticed something interesting about the hairstyles portrayed on several Roman busts. The “hair” adorning the statues on display was perfectly (and sometimes elaborately) coiffed, but there didn’t seem […] -
In 1948, François Le Lionnais (1901–84) published an essay in which he distinguished two types of beauty in mathematics:
• ‘Classical’ mathematical beauty, which impressed by its control and austerity.
• ‘Romantic’ mathematical beauty, which manifested in wildness, non-conformity, and strangeness.
Classical beauty was found where there was unification, such as in the 9-point circle of a triangle (see 1st attached image), or how the circle, ellipse, hyperbola, and parabola all arise from the focus–directrix construction (see 2nd attached image) and from conic sections, and can transformed into one another by projective transformations.
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