Corrigendum: The Biological Basis of Mathematical Beauty

Zeki, Semir; Chén, Oliver Y.; Romaya, John Paul

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2019.00325

CORRECTION article

Front. Hum. Neurosci., 20 September 2019

Sec. Cognitive Neuroscience

Volume 13 - 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00325

Corrigendum: The Biological Basis of Mathematical Beauty

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The Biological Basis of Mathematical Beauty
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$\nSemir Zeki$ Semir Zeki¹^*

Oliver Y. Chén²^*

John Paul Romaya¹

¹Laboratory of Neurobiology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
²Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

A Corrigendum on
The Biological Basis of Mathematical Beauty

by Zeki, S., Chén, O. Y., and Romaya, J. P. (2018). Front. Hum. Neurosci. 12:467. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00467

In the original article, there was an error. The square root symbol is missing from our description of the results.

A correction has been made to the Results section, subsection Primary Finding, paragraph two:

“Let r_ij denote the beauty rating that the i^th subject gives to the j^th formula; let u_ij denote individual i's understanding of the j^th formula; let N denote the total number of subjects; let $x_{j} : = \sum_{i = 1}^{N} r_{i j} / N$ and $y_{j} : = \sqrt{\sum_{i = 1}^{N} {(r_{i j} - x_{j})}^{2} / (N - 1)}$ be the mean beauty rating (m-BR) and standard deviation of beauty ratings (sd-BR), given to the j^th formula across subjects, respectively; let $μ_{j} : = \sum_{i = 1}^{N} u_{i j} / N$ and $σ_{j} : = \sqrt{\sum_{i = 1}^{N} {(u_{i j} - μ_{j})}^{2} / (N - 1)}$ be the mean understanding rating of the formula (m-UR) and standard deviation of the understanding rating (sd-UR), given to the j^th formula across subjects, respectively.”

The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

Keywords: mathematical beauty, biological beauty, artifactual beauty, deductive logic, neuroesthetics

Citation: Zeki S, Chén OY and Romaya JP (2019) Corrigendum: The Biological Basis of Mathematical Beauty. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 13:325. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00325

Received: 07 August 2019; Accepted: 04 September 2019;
Published: 20 September 2019.

Edited and reviewed by: Mikhail Lebedev, Duke University, United States

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*Correspondence: Semir Zeki, s.zeki@ucl.ac.uk; Oliver Y. Chén, yibing.chen@yale.edu

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