Emblems of Mind the Inner Life of Music and Mathematics - The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics

Informationen zum Autor Edward Rothstein is cultural critic-at-large for the New York Times. He also has served as chief music critic for the Times and as music critic for the New Republic. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship! Rothstein has written for Commentary! Vanity Fair! and the New York Review of Books. Klappentext From Kepler and the music of the spheres to Einstein and his violin! wherever we turn music and mathematics seem to bear a strong relationship. Through exploring music and math from the Greeks to the present! the chief music critic for The New York Times seeks to unravel this intriguing mystery. Zusammenfassung One is a science! the other an art; one useful! the other seemingly decorative! but mathematics and music share common origins in cult and mystery. This work explains how mathematics makes sense of space! how music tells a story! how theories are constructed! how melody is shaped. It argues that they are images of the mind at work and play.

Product details

• Authors: ROTHSTEIN, Edward Rothstein, Rothstein Edward
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2006
• EAN: 9780226729541
• ISBN: 978-0-226-72954-1
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MATHEMATICS / General, Mathematics, Theory of music & musicology, Theory of music and musicology