The Geometry of Music

An anonymous reader notes a Time.com profile of Princeton University music theorist Dmitri Tymoczko, who has applied some string-theory math to the study of music and found that all possible chordal music can be represented in a higher-dimensional space. His research was published last year in Science — it was the first paper on music theory they ever ran. The paper and background material, including movies, can be viewed at Tymoczko's site.

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Re:Actually

[Yetihehe]

Mathematical equations can be stochastic, they may have defined certain probabilities of happening. Stochastic L-Systems are good for demonstrating outcomes of some stochastic equations (I'm telling it after weekend with L-system parser for school project).

First Article on Music Theory they ever published?

[Vreejack]

This is emphatically NOT the first paper on music theory they have ever run. A cursory search turned up several other recent papers. I'm too busy reading Dmitri Tymoczko's report on "The Geometry of Musical Chords" to write any more ---Science 7 July 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5783, pp. 72 - 74
DOI: 10.1126/science.1126287