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work_obz7ybwug5b6jo7xfngpmpy2ei	M. Inglis	Beauty Is Not Simplicity: An Analysis of Mathematicians' Proof Appraisals	2014		.pdf	text/html	327	61	31	posted on 10.04.2015, 10:46 by Matthew Inglis, Andrew Aberdein What do mathematicians mean when they use terms such as 'deep', 'elegant', and 'beautiful'? By applying empirical methods developed by social psychologists, we demonstrate that mathematicians' appraisals of proofs vary on four dimensions: aesthetics, intricacy, utility, and precision. This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Philosophia Mathematica following peer review. The version of record INGLIS, M. Beauty is not simplicity: an analysis of mathematicians' proof appraisals. Beauty is not simplicity: an analysis of mathematicians' proof appraisals. Beauty is not simplicity: an analysis of mathematicians' proof appraisals. Beauty is not simplicity: an analysis of mathematicians' proof appraisals. 87 109 is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/philmat/nku014. Publisher version http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/philmat/nku014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/philmat/nku014 https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/account/articles/9370007	./cache/work_obz7ybwug5b6jo7xfngpmpy2ei.pdf	./txt/work_obz7ybwug5b6jo7xfngpmpy2ei.txt