Friday, January 30, 2015

Music is Audible Mathematics

Discuss.

1 comment:

Mike Cliffson said...

This is perfectly true , but unless you happen to be another Pascal (I think twas, or Decartes? per the ratherIDstyle schoolboy aphorism"No God, No Mathematics; but Maths is delicious,therefore God must exist")not particularly helpful for the general run of mortals.

Iam reminded of a much-anthologized 1953(?) Punch cartoon, (?) of two labcoated scientists chatting next a schoolhallsized computer, from whose outtray is being sent a nice,innocent, but wolfwhistleable naked young lady, caption "I just put in 60kg 65% H20,9%C, (etc the elemental composition of flesh and bone, ending ) 1% trace elements."
Another tangent: why used so many prods to decry the pre kumbaya catholic saying : "He who sings in church prays twice" ?
Methinks a more productive and socratic dialogue would come from restating your post as a question starting why