Friday, May 30, 2008

The Connections Between Music and Mathematics

Music brings joy to those who play, write, or listen. Bring up how it is connected to mathematics, and many people will be puzzled. However, once the shock reseeds and they thing about it, they realize that there are striking similarities. Not only the obvious ones, like beats in a measure, but the wave lengths and ratios between notes.

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