[vlasev]

Quite a few of our conversations with my ex (who is an artist) revolved around the contrast between mathematics and the arts. We realized quite early on that mathematics is actually quite artistic and could have easily been considered one of the arts, if it weren't for its inescapable rules and structure. High level mathematics takes just as much creativity as any of the arts.

[kian]

I don't think this necessarily negates it being one of the arts. They very act of choosing which rules to induce a particular structure is the art itself, no? (since the space of possible rules is infinite)