Like many of the readers, my training during college and graduate school focused on experimental methods for studying cellular, molecular, and developmental systems. This training included little formal education in physics and mathematics beyond the minimal requirement, a single semester of calculus and one to two semesters of physics. If the reader is anything like me, we are now wishing that...

The purpose of this note is to present an example of a proof by induction that in the opinion of the present author has great aesthetic value. The proof in question is Thomassen’s proof that planar graphs are 5-choosable. I give a self-contained presentation of this result and its proof, and a personal account of why I think this proof is beautiful. A secondary purpose is to more widely publici...

Current approaches to aesthetic image analysis either provide accurate or interpretable results. To get both accuracy and interpretability, we advocate the use of learned visual attributes as mid-level features. For this purpose, we propose to discover and learn the visual appearance of attributes automatically, using the recently introduced AVA database which contains more than 250,000 images ...

We prove that if T = T eq is a stable theory (without the finite cover property), then the theory TP of “beautiful pairs” eliminates imaginaries if and only if no infinite group is definable in a model of T .

O ver the past few years, the evidence has been building intensively that there is a story to be told about the relationship between cetaceans and primates. More significantly, the nature of this relationship carries implications about more general principles of behavioral evolution and convergence, the process by which similarity between species occurs because of adaptation to similar environm...

This paper introduces Zplot, a Tcl library for making twodimensional data plots. Zplot provides a simple set of primitives that allow users to input and manipulate data, plot said data in a variety of formats, and decorate the resulting graphs with axes, labels, and other textual accents. Zplot then outputs encapsulated PostScript for ease of inclusion in technical documents.

In this paper, we will study the simplest kind of beauty that can be found in a simple piece of music and can be appreciated universally. The proposed model suggest that there is a link between beautiful music and the Dyson distribution which seems to be the result of a deeper optimisation process between randomness and regularity. Then we show that beautiful music need to satisfy a more fundam...

In this paper, we will study the simplest kind of beauty that can be found in a simple visual pattern and can be appreciated universally. The proposed model suggest that there is a link between beautiful pattern and a deeper optimisation process between randomness and regularity. Then we show that beautiful patterns need to satisfy a more fundamental law that seeks to deliver the highest amount...