15 Beautiful Math GIFs That Shows the Beauty of Mathematics

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music.” — Bertrand Russell.

Lazarus
5 min readJul 6, 2024

“Beauty of Mathematics” from Yann Pineill and Nicolas Lefaucheux shows how math reveals everything from the very simple. On the left, you see the equation itself, in the middle, a diagram of what’s happening in real-time, and on the right, how things look in the real world.

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