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The mathematician G. H. Hardy wrote that “a mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. …The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”