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MUSIC BY NUMBERS

FROM PYTHAGORAS TO SCHOENBERG
MAOR, ELI

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Music by the Numbers explores key moments in this history, particularly how problems originating in music have inspired mathematicia ns for centuries. Perhaps the most famous of these problems is the vibrating string, which pitted some of the greatest mathematician s of the eighteenth century against each other in a debate that lasted more than fifty years and that eventually led to the developm ent of post-calculus mathematics. Other highlights in the book include a comparison between meter in music and metric in geometry, c omplete ...[Read more]

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DetailsPRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
2018
192 Pages
Format: Tela
ISBN: 9780691176901
Language: INGLÉSCategory: Music rehearsal

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