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Music: A Mathematical Offering
Dave Benson
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Description for Music: A Mathematical Offering
Paperback. This book explores the interaction between music and mathematics including harmony, symmetry, digital music and perception of sound. Num Pages: 426 pages, 263 b/w illus. 17 colour illus. BIC Classification: AV; PB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 173 x 20. Weight in Grams: 766. 426 pages, 263 b/w illus. 17 colour illus. Explores interaction between music and mathematics including harmony, symmetry, digital music and perception of sound. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: AV; PB. Dimension: 246 x 173 x 20. Weight: 854.
Since the time of the Ancient Greeks, much has been written about the relation between mathematics and music: from harmony and number theory, to musical patterns and group theory. Benson provides a wealth of information here to enable the teacher, the student, or the interested amateur to understand, at varying levels of technicality, the real interplay between these two ancient disciplines. The story is long as well as broad and involves physics, biology, psycho acoustics, the history of science, and digital technology as well as, of course, mathematics and music. Starting with the structure of the human ear and its ... Read more
Since the time of the Ancient Greeks, much has been written about the relation between mathematics and music: from harmony and number theory, to musical patterns and group theory. Benson provides a wealth of information here to enable the teacher, the student, or the interested amateur to understand, at varying levels of technicality, the real interplay between these two ancient disciplines. The story is long as well as broad and involves physics, biology, psycho acoustics, the history of science, and digital technology as well as, of course, mathematics and music. Starting with the structure of the human ear and its ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
423
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
426
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521619998
SKU
V9780521619998
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About Dave Benson
David J. Benson is a 6th Century Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen.
Reviews for Music: A Mathematical Offering
'… informative and well-written … Not only does this book cover basic material thoroughly, it also presents much of interest to those already familiar with the area of math and music. And the author provides a wealth of citations to the often scattered literature on the subject.' Zentralblatt MATH '… an excellent introduction to the interdisciplinary subject of music and ... Read more