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empath75today at 5:19 PM0 repliesview on HN

I think what people find beautiful in math is largely something that enables the mathematics (or physics) to be translated to something that they can think about intuitively, and what people can handle in an intuitive way is largely an artifact of what the brain evolved to be able to think about "naturally". But it's quite possible that most things that are true about the universe or math are just ugly and unintuitive, and the pursuit of truth shouldn't necessarily be limited by what people can easily reason about and hold in their heads.

Beautiful explanations are lovely when they exist, but we shouldn't wait for them if we can also find the truth through an ugly method.