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- Exponentials and logarithms
- Harmonic series
- Combinatorics
- Chaos theory
- Some calculus
- Resonance
- Linear algebra
It also taught me about physics, cognitive psychology, learning theory, history and even some sociology.
Music and piano playing taught me things about (math related): - Exponentials and logarithms - Harmonic series - Combinatorics - Chaos theory - Some calculus - Resonance - Linear algebra It also taught me about physics, cognitive psychology, learning theory, history and even some sociology.
There's some stuff with group actions going on - I think you can think of a dihedral group acting on sets of triads or something along those lines and there are some articles out there about that, but I feel like I don't have a good mapping in my head as to the relationship between music and mathematics.
> When all my first-grade classmates were memorizing math facts like “2 + 3 = 5” > I was called out during class when my teacher saw me fiddling with my fingers during a classroom exercise From their LinkedIn profile, it appears that the author went to school in the US. I'm not from the US, but my impression of US schools is the complete opposite of one where students are taught to "memorize math facts" or one where…
The only exception to this for me was pre-calc, in which they taught us trigonometry rules without explaining it's basic relationships to the unit circle. Our calculus teacher was dumbfounded the next year when we had no intuitive understanding for these things. It took an hour to correct. No big loss. Shrug.
> When all my first-grade classmates were memorizing math facts like “2 + 3 = 5” > I was called out during class when my teacher saw me fiddling with my fingers during a classroom exercise From their LinkedIn profile, it appears that the author went to school in the US. I'm not from the US, but my impression of US schools is the complete opposite of one where students are taught to "memorize math facts" or one where…
> When all my first-grade classmates were memorizing math facts like “2 + 3 = 5” > I was called out during class when my teacher saw me fiddling with my fingers during a classroom exercise From their LinkedIn profile, it appears that the author went to school in the US. I'm not from the US, but my impression of US schools is the complete opposite of one where students are taught to "memorize math facts" or one where…
You can't generalize US schools. There are a lot of them, and they generally answer to different authorities, local school districts, state school districts, religious (Catholic) schools do their own thing, etc.
I've been looking at music over the last year or so, bits of basic music theory. As a child I had no idea how linked to maths it was, and how much easier music is once you realise that it's just applied mathematics and touch typing
> When all my first-grade classmates were memorizing math facts like “2 + 3 = 5” > I was called out during class when my teacher saw me fiddling with my fingers during a classroom exercise From their LinkedIn profile, it appears that the author went to school in the US. I'm not from the US, but my impression of US schools is the complete opposite of one where students are taught to "memorize math facts" or one where…
Music...where 3 + 3 = 5. Ie c to e is a third, and e to g is a third, but c to g is a fifth.
> When all my first-grade classmates were memorizing math facts like “2 + 3 = 5” > I was called out during class when my teacher saw me fiddling with my fingers during a classroom exercise From their LinkedIn profile, it appears that the author went to school in the US. I'm not from the US, but my impression of US schools is the complete opposite of one where students are taught to "memorize math facts" or one where…
> When all my first-grade classmates were memorizing math facts like “2 + 3 = 5” > I was called out during class when my teacher saw me fiddling with my fingers during a classroom exercise From their LinkedIn profile, it appears that the author went to school in the US. I'm not from the US, but my impression of US schools is the complete opposite of one where students are taught to "memorize math facts" or one where…
Music...where 3 + 3 = 5. Ie c to e is a third, and e to g is a third, but c to g is a fifth.
4 + 3 = 7
Music and piano playing taught me things about (math related): - Exponentials and logarithms - Harmonic series - Combinatorics - Chaos theory - Some calculus - Resonance - Linear algebra It also taught me about physics, cognitive psychology, learning theory, history and even some sociology.
Coming from the opposite direction, I'm quite curious as to where the linear algebra and combinatorics fit in. As a former mathematician (switched to computing after one post-doc) who has been trying to learn about music and to play the piano, I'm trying to make sense of how music and mathematics relate. There's some stuff with group actions going on - I think you can think of a dihedral group acting on sets of triad…
Perhaps this is not what the GP meant though, I’m curious about however it applies. No idea about where linear algebra could fit in, I have yet to see those parallels myself yet but interesting to think how it could relate