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    Three Essays on Aesthetic Experience
    Dissertation, Harvard University. 2020.
    In this dissertation, I connect aesthetics to two unusual areas: mathematics and meditation. In the first two essays, I argue that beauty and aesthetic experience make a difference to mathematical practice. A mathematical proof is very different from more familiar beauties, but I argue that what mathematicians call "beauty" really deserves the name. "No Mathematics Without Beauty" argues that mathematicians wouldn't be able to understand or create certain proofs without the capacity for aestheti…Read more