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This is a lightly edited translation of “Über die ästhetische Betrachtungsweise in der Mathematik,” an inaugural lecture delivered by Krull to the University of Erlangen on 11 January 1930. The original text was published in theSitzungsberichte of the Physikalisch-Medizinische Sozietät Erlangen,61 (1930) 207–220. TheIntelligencer would like to thank the society for permission to reprint the article.
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Krull, W. The aesthetic viewpoint in mathematics. The Mathematical Intelligencer 9, 48–52 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03023574
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