Math, Beauty, and Brain Areas

Mumford's first work that I know of after his mathematical peak was on machine vision, in the 1980s. I know this because I went back to the math department to visit and saw him running around with a video camera. I got the impression he was interested in how the actual brain works even back then.

This would be around 30 years ago.

Odd that he says game theory is "outside pure math". I wrote my thesis in game theory when he was on the faculty.

On the other, two of my three readers were from the business school rather than the math department, so maybe he has a point. :)

And I could also add

"Beauty is truth; truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth or need to know."

But I think it's a bit self-contradictory ...