The Webinar on Beauty, Symmetry and Proportion took place on Friday, August 6th, 2021 from 5 pm until 6:30 pm, with Jose Luis Cisneros, Researcher in the Cuernavaca Unit of the Institute of Mathematics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), as our invited speaker. This virtual event was free and open to the general public.
The invited speaker defined what beauty is and shared quotes from Rene Descartes, Bertrand Russell and Aristotle that relate mathematics with beauty. Jose Luis Cisneros also described examples of symmetry in nature, in art, in architecture, in literature and in mathematics. The speaker also presented on ratio and proportion and highlighted the famous golden ratio. This virtual event was co-organized with the Mexican Mathematical Society (SMM).
