Simplicity: Ideals of Practice in Mathematics and the Arts

1. Inner Simplicity vs. Outer Simplicity
Étienne Ghys

2. The Complexity of Simplicity: The Inner Structure of the Artistic Image
Juhani Pallasmaa

3. Thinking in Four Dimensions
Dusa McDuff

4. Kant, Co-Production, Actuality, and Pedestrian Space: Remarks on the Philosophical Writings of Fred Sandback
Juliette Kennedy

5. What Simplicity Is Not
Maryanthe Malliaris, Assaf Peretz

6. Constructing the Simples
Curtis Franks

7. The Simplicity Postulate
Marjorie Senechal

8. The Experience of Meaning
Jan Zwicky

9. Math Currents in the Brain
Misha Gromov

10. bc, becuz, Because ASCII
Kate Shepherd

11. “Abstract, Directly Experienced, Highly Simplified, and Self-Contained”: Discourses of Simplification, Disorientation, and Process in the Arts
Riikka Stewen

12. Remarks on Simple Proofs
Rosalie Iemhoff

13. The Fluidity of Simplicity: Philosophy, Mathematics, Art
Juliet Floyd

14. “Mathematical Typography” (After Donald Knuth, 1978)
Dexter Sinister, D. Reinfurt, S. Bailey

15. Simplicity via Complexity: Sandboxes, Reading Novalis
Andrés Villaveces

16. On the Alleged Simplicity of Impure Proof
Andrew Arana

17. Minimalism and Foundations
Spencer Gerhardt

18. Economy of Thought: A Neglected Principle of Mathematics Education
Alexandre V. Borovik

19. Simplicity Is the Point
Dennis Sullivan

Avainsanat: Mathematics, Mathematics in Art and Architecture, Arts, Algebra