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Music by the numbers : from Pythagoras to Schoenberg / Eli Maor.

By: Maor, Eli [author.].
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]Description: xvii, 155 pages : USD 24.95 illustrations, maps, music ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780691176901.Subject(s): Music -- Mathematics | Music -- Acoustics and physicsDDC classification: 781.2
Contents:
Prologue: A world in crisis -- String theory, 500 BCE -- Sidebar A. It's all about nomenclature -- Enlightenment -- The great string debate, 1730-1780 -- Sidebar B. The Slinky -- A most precious gift -- Musical temperament -- Sidebar C. Music for the record books: the lowest, the longest, the oldest, and the weirdest -- Musical gadgets: the tuning fork and the metronome -- Rhythm, meter, and metric -- Frames of reference: where am I? -- Sidebar D. Musical hierarchies -- Relativistic music -- Aftermath -- Sidebar E. The Bernoulli -- The last Pythagoreans.
Summary: How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth century.
List(s) this item appears in: 2019-08-30

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-148) and index.

Prologue: A world in crisis -- String theory, 500 BCE -- Sidebar A. It's all about nomenclature -- Enlightenment -- The great string debate, 1730-1780 -- Sidebar B. The Slinky -- A most precious gift -- Musical temperament -- Sidebar C. Music for the record books: the lowest, the longest, the oldest, and the weirdest -- Musical gadgets: the tuning fork and the metronome -- Rhythm, meter, and metric -- Frames of reference: where am I? -- Sidebar D. Musical hierarchies -- Relativistic music -- Aftermath -- Sidebar E. The Bernoulli -- The last Pythagoreans.

How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth century.