A person’s ability to recognize a beautiful face is innate, but translating this into defined treatment goals is problematic. Recognizing beauty is not practiced nor is it difficult. The perception of beauty is an individual preference with cultural bias. Rules governing why a face is beautiful are not understood nor are required for anyone to say that a face is beautiful. Artists and health pr...

People magazine has circulation of over 3.5 million copies, more than The New Yorker and Newsweek combined. This book caters to this widespread interest in good looks while injecting economics into the analysis of the topic. Daniel Hamermesh has written half a dozen papers on the relationship between beauty and economic outcomes and these articles are the backbone of the book, which is organize...

TheRussian style of formulatingmathematical problemsmeans that nobody will be able to simplify your formulation as opposed to the French style which means that nobody will be able to generalize it,—Vladimir Arnold.

Uniform polyhedra consist of regular faces and congruent vertices. Allowing for nonconvex faces and vertex figures, there are 75 such polyhedra, as well as 2 infinite families of prisms and antiprisms. A recently discovered uniform way of computing their vertex coordinates is the basis for our program to display all of these solids, among which are many beautiful and stunning shapes. We will al...

Aesthetics in the second half of 19th century (Carl Rosenkranz, Christian Hermann Weisse) never defines ugly as an independent category, but rather derives it from idea beauty. Ugliness is either understood a dialectic way negation beauty or decadent transformation becoming funny even ridiculous. Rosenkranz comprehends lies and madness deformations former Taking deformation criterion for musica...

The present work explores the unconscious and/or conscious nature of learning attractive faces of same and opposite sex, that is, of stimuli that experimental and neuroimaging research has shown to be rewarding and thus highly motivating. To this end, we examined performance of men and women while classifying strings of average and attractive faces for grammaticality in the experimental task of...

Reward dysfunction may be implicated in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This study applied a behavioral probe, known to activate brain reward regions, to subjects with PTSD. Male heterosexual Vietnam veterans with (n = 12) or without (n = 11) current PTSD were administered two tasks: (a) key pressing to change the viewing time of average or beautiful female or male facial images, and (b)...

In this paper I would like to pave the ground for future studies in Computational Stylistics and (Neuro-)Cognitive Poetics by describing procedures for predicting the subjective beauty of words. A set of eight tentative word features is computed via Quantitative Narrative Analysis (QNA) and a novel metric for quantifying word beauty, the aesthetic potential is proposed. Application of machine l...

The most beautiful mathematics to Godfrey Harold Hardy was that which had no application. For Hardy, mathematics was purely for intellectual challenge. He justified the pursuit of pure mathematics with the argument that its very “uselessness” meant that it could not be used to cause harm. Hardy went so far as to describe applied mathematics as “ugly”, “trivial”, and “dull” [1]. Despite Hardy’s ...

Many have written of the experience of mathematical beauty as being comparable to that derived from the greatest art. This makes it interesting to learn whether the experience of beauty derived from such a highly intellectual and abstract source as mathematics correlates with activity in the same part of the emotional brain as that derived from more sensory, perceptually based, sources. To dete...