Why Numbers are Music to Our Ears (Update)
Update: 2025-01-11
Description
Sarah Hart investigates the mathematical structures underlying musical compositions and literature. Using examples from Monteverdi to Lewis Carroll, Sarah explains to Steve how math affects how we hear music and understand stories.
- SOURCE:
- Sarah Hart, professor emerita of mathematics at the University of London.
- RESOURCES:
- Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature, by Sarah Hart (2023).
- "Ahab's Arithmetic: The Mathematics of Moby-Dick," by Sarah B. Hart (Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 2021).
- "Online Lecture: The Mathematics of Musical Composition," by Sarah Hart (Gresham College, 2020).
- Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, film (2018).
- The Luminaries: A Novel, by Eleanor Catton (2013).
- Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure, edited by Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith (2008).
- Les Revenentes, by Georges Perec (1972).
- A Void, by Georges Perec (1969).
- Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes, by Raymond Queneau (1961).
- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carroll (1871).
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll (1865).
- OuLiPo.
- EXTRAS:
- "The Joy of Math With Sarah Hart," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2023).
- "Mathematician Sarah Hart on Why Numbers are Music to Our Ears," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2021).
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