Simplicity: Ideals of Practice in Mathematics and the Arts

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kossak, Roman (Editor), Ording, Philip (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Mathematics, Culture, and the Arts,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Arts.; Algebra.; Mathematics in Art and Architecture.

To find "criteria of simplicity" was the goal of David Hilbert's recently discovered twenty-fourth problem on his renowned list of open problems given at the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris. At the same time, simplicity and economy of means are powerful impulses...