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BEAUTY Beautychallengesconventionalapproachestothesubjectthroughan interdisciplinaryapproachthatforgesconnectionsbetweenthearts,sciencesand mathematics.Classical,conventionalaspectsofbeautyareaddressedinsubtle, unexpectedways:symmetryinmathematics,attractionintheanimalworldand beautyinthecosmos.ThiscollectionarisesfromtheDarwinCollegeLecture Seriesof2011andincludesessaysfromeightdistinguishedscholars,allofwhom areheldinesteemnotonlyfortheirresearchbutalsofortheirabilityto communicatetheirsubjecttopopularaudiences.Eachessayisentertaining, accessibleandthought-provokingandisaccompaniedbyimagesillustrating beautyinpractice. THE DARWIN COLLEGE LECTURES Theseessaysaredevelopedfromthe2011DarwinCollegeLectureSeries.Nowin theirtwenty-seventhyear,thesepopularCambridgetalkstakeasinglethemeeach year.Internationallydistinguishedscholars,skilledaspopularisers,addressthe themefromthepointofviewofeightdifferentartsandsciencesdisciplines. Subjectscoveredintheseriesinclude 25 BEAUTY eds.LaurenArrington,ZoëLeinhardt,PhilipDawid 9781107693432 24 RISK eds.LaylaSkinns,MichaelScott,TonyCox pb9780521171977 23 DARWIN eds.WilliamBrownandAndrewFabian pb9780521131957 22 SERENDIPITY eds.MarkdeRondandIainMorley pb9780521181815 21 IDENTITY eds.GiselleWalkerandElizabethLeedham‐Green pb9780521897266 20 SURVIVAL ed.EmilyShuckburgh pb9780521718206 19 CONFLICT eds.MartinJonesandAndrewFabian hb9780521839600 18 EVIDENCE eds.AndrewBell,JohnSwenson-WrightandKarinTybjerg pb9780521710190 17 DNA:CHANGINGSCIENCEANDSOCIETY ed.TorstenKrude hb9780521823784 16 POWER eds.AlanBlackwellandDavidMackay hb9780521823717 15 SPACE eds.FrançoisPenz,GregoryRadickandRobertHowell hb9780521823760 14 TIME ed.KatinkaRidderbos hb9780521782937 13 THEBODY eds.SeanSweeneyandIanHodder hb9780521782920 12 STRUCTURE eds.WendyPullanandHarshadBhadeshia hb9780521782586 11 SOUND eds.PatriciaKruthandHenryStobart pb9780521033831 10 MEMORY eds.PatriciaFaraandKaralynPatterson pb9780521032186 9 EVOLUTION ed.AndrewFabian pb9780521032179 8 THECHANGINGWORLD eds.PatriciaFara,PeterGathercoleandRonaldLaski unavailable 7 COLOUR:ARTANDSCIENCE eds.TrevorLambandJanineBourriau unavailable 6 WHATISINTELLIGENCE? ed.JeanKhalfa pb9780521566858 5 PREDICTINGTHEFUTURE ed.LeoHoweandAlanWain pb9780521619745 4 UNDERSTANDINGCATASTROPHE ed.JanineBourriau pb9780521032193 3 WAYSOFCOMMUNICATING ed.D.H.Mellor pb9780521019040 2 THEFRAGILEENVIRONMENT eds.LaurieFridayandRonaldLaskey pb9780521422666 1 ORIGINS ed.AndrewFabian pb9780521018197 THE DARWIN COLLEGE LECTURES Beauty Edited by Lauren Arrington, Zoë Leinhardt and Philip Dawid cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,SãoPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB28RU,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107693432 ©DarwinCollege,2013 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2013 PrintedandboundintheUnitedKingdombytheMPGBooksGroup AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Beauty/editedbyLaurenArrington,ZoëLeinhardt,PhilipDawid. pages cm.– (DarwinCollegelectures) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-107-69343-2(Paperback) 1. Aesthetics. I. Arrington,Lauren,1981-editorofcompilation. II. Leinhardt,Zoë,editor ofcompilation. III. Dawid,Philip,editorofcompilation. BH39.B38242013 1110.85–dc23 2012036780 ISBN978-1-107-69343-2Paperback Additionalresourcesforthispublicationatwww.cambridge.org/ CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. Contents Notes on contributors page viii List of figures xi Introduction 1 1. Beauty and truth: their intersection in mathematics and science 6 ROBERT M. MAY 2. Beauty and the grotesque 26 JOSÉ HERNÁNDEZ 3. Quantum beauty: real and ideal 43 FRANK WILCZEK 4. The sound of beauty 72 ELIZABETH EVA LEACH 5. Beauty and attraction: in the ‘eye’ of the beholder 99 JEANNE ALTMANN 6. Beauty and happiness: Chinese perspectives 119 JASON C. KUO 7. Terror by beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives 143 EVGENY A. DOBRENKO 8. The science and beauty of nebulae 169 CAROLIN CRAWFORD Index 192 vii Notes on contributors Jeanne Altmann is a behavioural ecologist with focus on the life-history of natural populations of long-lived and highly social primates. This empirical researchinvolvesalmostdailydatacollectionontheAmboselipopulationof baboons, now four decades and seven generations deep (see www.princeton. edu/~baboon).Shehasservedonvariousexternaladvisoryboards,currently includingtheWisconsinNationalPrimateResearchCenter,theMaxPlanck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the Institute of Primate Research of the National Museums of Kenya. She was previously Professor and Chair of the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago and is currently Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus in Princeton’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, a faculty associate in Princeton’s Office of Population Research and the Princeton Environmental Institute, and an honorary lecturer at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. She is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. Carolin Crawford is an astronomer at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Her research focusesonthepropertiesofthemostmassivegalaxiesintheuniverse,using data collected from the largest ground-based and space telescopes. Carolin combinesherresearchandteachingwithherotherpassion–communicating her love of astronomy to as wide an audience as possible. She runs the outreachprogrammeattheInstituteofAstronomyand,inadditiontogiving manytalksonawiderangeofastronomicaltopics,isaregularcontributorto bothnationalandlocalradioprogrammes.In2009Carolinwasnotedasone of the UKRC’s Women of Outstanding Achievement for the communication ofsciencewithacontributiontosociety.(Seewww-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~csc/.) Evgeny A. Dobrenko is Professor and Head of the Department of Russian andSlavonicStudiesoftheUniversityofSheffield.Heistheauthor,editoror co-editor of twenty books, and has published more than 250 articles and viii
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