TY - BOOK ID - 78147456 TI - Insanity and genius : masks of madness and the mapping of meaning and value PY - 2014 SN - 1443860867 9781443860864 9781443858854 1443858854 PB - Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Truth (Aesthetics) KW - Genius and mental illness. KW - Meaning (Philosophy) KW - Philosophy KW - Semantics (Philosophy) KW - Genius and insanity KW - Insanity and genius KW - Mental illness and genius KW - Mental illness KW - Aesthetics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78147456 AB - In his book about the discovery of the structure of DNA, James Watson wrote, ""So we had lunch, telling ourselves that a structure this beautiful just had to exist."" Indeed, the quest most often asked by scientists about a scientific theory is ""Is it beautiful?"" Yes, beauty equals truth. Scientists know, mathematicians know. But the beauties, the truths of mathematics and science were not the truths that inspired the author as a child, and he intuitively knew that the truths he needed come fr... ER -