Corrigendum: The Biological Basis of Mathematical Beauty


CORRECTION
published: 20 September 2019

doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00325

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience | www.frontiersin.org 1 September 2019 | Volume 13 | Article 325

Edited and reviewed by:

Mikhail Lebedev,

Duke University, United States

*Correspondence:

Semir Zeki

s.zeki@ucl.ac.uk

Oliver Y. Chén

yibing.chen@yale.edu

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Received: 07 August 2019

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Published: 20 September 2019

Citation:

Zeki S, Chén OY and Romaya JP

(2019) Corrigendum: The Biological

Basis of Mathematical Beauty.

Front. Hum. Neurosci. 13:325.

doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00325

Corrigendum: The Biological Basis of
Mathematical Beauty

Semir Zeki1*, Oliver Y. Chén2* and John Paul Romaya1

1 Laboratory of Neurobiology, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 2 Department of Psychology, Yale

University, New Haven, CT, United States

Keywords: mathematical beauty, biological beauty, artifactual beauty, deductive logic, neuroesthetics

A Corrigendum on

The Biological Basis of Mathematical Beauty

by Zeki, S., Chén, O. Y., and Romaya, J. P. (2018). Front. Hum. Neurosci. 12:467.
doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00467

In the original article, there was an error. The square root symbol is missing from our description
of the results.

A correction has been made to the Results section, subsection Primary Finding, paragraph two:
“Let rij denote the beauty rating that the i

th subject gives to the jth formula; let uij denote

individual i’s understanding of the jth formula; let N denote the total number of subjects; let

xj : =
∑N

i=1 rij/N and yj : =

√

∑N
i=1

(

rij − xj
)2

/(N − 1) be the mean beauty rating (m-BR) and

standard deviation of beauty ratings (sd-BR), given to the jth formula across subjects, respectively;

let µj : =
∑N

i=1 uij/N and σj : =

√

∑N
i=1

(

uij − µj
)2

/(N − 1) be the mean understanding rating

of the formula (m-UR) and standard deviation of the understanding rating (sd-UR), given to the
jth formula across subjects, respectively.”

The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions
of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

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