Is Math Art? Werner Herzog Says Yes

The German filmmaker spoke about math and the sublime at Brooklyn Public Library's Pi Day celebration.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/werner-herzog-brooklyn-public-library-pi-day-2754957

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"These aesthetics of mathematics, Herzog said, can even touch the sublime. He made clear his love for Euler’s Identity—math’s most beautiful equation which links five fundamental constants—that borders on rapture. “I’m stunned by its simplicity, really,” he said. “Sometimes when I look deeper into it, I get the feeling that I want to cry.”"

Herzog is one of us.