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A Finite Simple Group Of Order 2
Original by M. Salamone, performed by the Klein Four Group from their album Musical Fruitcake, available here. The lyrics are below the fold. The path of love is never smooth But mine’s continuous for...
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More Musical Maths
Ladies and Gentlemen: Calculus: the musical. I’d go, even if the concept isn’t totally original: (That’s Tom Lehrer for the undereducated.)
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Can you hear the golden ratio?
It’s a celebrated fact that the golden ratio produces beautiful shapes. But do its aesthetic qualities extend to music? Michael S. Schneider thinks he’s found it in one of the centrepieces of drum and...
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123 Musicophilia
There is a meme circulating in the blogosphere where you have to turn to page 123 of a book you’ve recently read, and post the 5th, 6th, and 7th sentences. Here goes: “Absolute pitch is not necessarily...
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Hadrons in da house
Cheers to JAM for pointing me to the Large Hadron rap, by Alpinekat:
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Gorgeous Möbius
A short film about Möbius transformations, by Douglas Arnold and Jonathan Rogness. The music is Schumann’s “Of Foreign Lands and Peoples”, played by Donald Betts.
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Punk Math
I just ran into Tom Henderson’s Punk Math Manifesto: The video’s an appeal for funds taken from Kickstarter, but it looks like the target’s already been reached. (Not that a few more pennies would go...
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You are now about to witness the strength of math knowledge.
[Update: I’m updating this post with more math raps as I find them, so scroll to the bottom for newer material.] I can see the future. And what I see is math-rapping. So here’s a celebration of today’s...
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The Grothendieck Song
There are many songs in the world about love and loss, heartbreak and heart-ache. There are altogether fewer about algebraic geometry in the style of Alexander Grothendieck. Here is my attempt to fill...
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