Whatever one might say about method, epistemically speaking, the aesthetic is prior to the mathematical. The mathematical is found in the analysis of the beautiful.
Truth, beauty and goodness are known as the “transcendentals” for a reason. They are linked. They don’t come one after the other.
Truth, beauty and goodness are known as the “transcendentals” for a reason. They are linked. They don’t come one after the other.