Eli Maor

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Music by the Numbers

From Pythagoras to Schoenberg

Beschreibung

How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elements, the works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like logic, and Igor Stravinsky said "musical form is close to mathematics," while Arnold Schoenberg, Iannis Xenakis, and Karlheinz Stockhausen we

Autor

Eli Maor is a former professor of the history of mathematics at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of seven previous books, including the internationally acclaimed To Infinity and Beyond, e: The Story of a Number, Trigonometric Delights, and The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History (all Princeton).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 151mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 419g
• ISBN-13: 9780691176901
• ISBN-10: 0691176906
• Artikelnr.: 49327761

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"A fascinating investigation of the relationship between math and music--what they have in common, how they differ, and how each has informed the other, from Pythagoras to Schoenberg, from violin strings to superstrings. A delightful examination of how math and culture interact."--Ian Stewart, author of Significant Figures