However its fair to say that not everyone likes maths. To many its abstraction and symbols are a barrier, or a memory of painful days at school, for whom it's hard to believe that equations can be beautiful.
But they really can and to prove it scientists put mathematicians in a brain scanner as they looked at gems like Euler's identity:
And the reaction on those mathematicians brains, as you can read in this BBC news article, was that the neurons that were fired included those that are triggered for great works of art or music.
There really is beauty in equations.
Of course I've been lucky enough to study maths up to university level, so I've had quite a bit of training.
However the equation at the top (as tweeted by @CERN) is hopefully one that all can appreciate, how ever much maths they've done, as it defines the following 3D shape:
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You are such a romantic!
Lovely.
And what's the equation for a blue heart, Luv?
You can use Google’s in-search graph creation to draw a blue heart, Tonya. Just Google this...
sqrt(cos(x))*cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2)
Thanks so much Tillerman.
But I can see why so many are frightened of maths.
Oops, broken link to those scary maths.
Hope this one works.
OMG that is so scary: should have a warning notice on the link.
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