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The Geometry of Music

Posted by kdawson on from the fantasia-with-strings dept.

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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  1. Re:Goatse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    didn't we find this guy a while ago?
    Goatse's actualy name is Kirk Johnson or frank or something.

  2. no, but coincidentally... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    tymoczko's the name of my mother's doctor;-)

    1. Re:no, but coincidentally... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      One hopes that her disease is not as unpronounceable as the doctor's name.

  3. Re:Dirk Gently by Eli+Gottlieb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There's a computer-scientist in that book? I really need to find a copy; I've only read "Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul" and the "Hitchhiker's Guide" series.