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Saturday, 19 April 2008 |
The American Mathematical Society has taken to printing the article Brian Davis (Brian Davies), a professor of the Royal College of London. The paper, entitled "Whither Mathematics?" ( "Where is mathematics?"), Argued that the XX century, the most accurate of the exact sciences suffered fractures, which fundamentally changes the nature of the results obtained therein. In the future, according to Professor Davis, mathematics will be very much different from the one science that has been known for the past two thousand years.
For thousands of years it was believed that mathematics offers irrefutable eternal truth. Many remarkable mathematical allegations such as Euclidean geometry theorems were correct in our day, in exactly the same as two thousand years ago. Yet in the XX century mathematics experienced three deep crisis, which substantially altered the status of mathematical research.
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Saturday, 19 April 2008 |
Scientists have Tonabfolgen to a new kind interpreted as geometric figures. The math experts it could allow more detailed discussion about music As a sort of translation guide provides Dmitri Tymoczko of his work Princton University, which he shared with two colleagues in the trade magazine "Science" published. They transformed music in geometric shapes.
Logical structure of the music is evident "We can understand the history of music to a certain extent as development of various symmetries and geometries represent," says Tymocsko. "I think it is very satisfying that we now can see that there is a logical structure, which in many musical concepts apply." That enabled scientists also in a uniform language to discuss the music.
The study focuses mainly on the western music. The reason is that concepts like the chord not exist in all cultures. "I think that it is a great project for the future is to find out what aspects for other cultures." Are you a smart business person? you know what it takes to make your business run smoothly,and reducing costs without losing productivity or quality is one of your primary concerns, especially in today’s economy.
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