M4TEMOZIOA
2015
HITZALDIA | CONFERENCIA
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
Sound, shape, and harmony

BIZKAIA ARETOA/ PARANINFO UPV/EHU
Avenida Abandoibarra 3, Bilbao
26/02/2015 | 19:00

Izen ematea | Inscripción: m4temozioa@bcamath.org

www.bcamath.org
The historical development of the geometric understanding of harmony is the subject of this lecture. The analysis of stringed instruments lies at the root of the Western theory of music, while in Chinese music stone chimes have played a special role. A vibrating string is essentially one-dimensional, while stone chimes depends on their two-dimensional geometries, whose analysis requires more sophisticated mathematics. More recently, the vibration of three- and even higher-dimensional objects have been investigated

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