Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691202969ISBN-10:691202966UPC:9780691202969Book Category:Mathematics, Music, ScienceBook Subcategory:History & Philosophy, Instruction & Study, HistoryBook Topic:TheorySize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC7NQ7AHFD
Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg
How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth century
Music is filled with mathematical elements. The works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like logic, and Arnold Schoenberg, Iannis Xenakis, and Karlheinz Stockhausen wrote music explicitly based on mathematical principles. Yet Eli Maor argues that it is music that has had the greater...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691202969ISBN-10:691202966UPC:9780691202969Book Category:Mathematics, Music, ScienceBook Subcategory:History & Philosophy, Instruction & Study, HistoryBook Topic:TheorySize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC7NQ7AHFD
Eli Maor is a former professor of the history of mathematics at Loyola University Chicago. His books include 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).
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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