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IMHO a lot of Scientists are also musicians, in fact, in my experience it
seems to be the most common art form that Scientist types do for relaxation
as a hobby!

In fact, music can be represented by maths- numbers, frequencies,
measurements of loudness, subdivisions of the beat or bar etc........

I think that maths is art, and so is music. They are two forms of abstract
art, IMHO, maybe the most abstract??

Cheers

John

Groovey Band website             mail to : chickenjohn@...
http://www.grooveyband.co.uk/

East Kent Morris Minor Club web site    or  ; john@...
http://www.ekmm.co.uk

Shake The Snake web site (other band)   or  ; john@...
http://www.shakethesnake.co.uk


----- Original Message -----
From: <GAmoore@...>
To: <logic-ot@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 09 November 2001 16:47
Subject: Re: [L-OT] Digital Signals & Mating Signals


> >I'm glad someone's
> >interested in it.
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> Actually most mathematicians believe the beauty of mathematics in and of
> itself without any regard to real world applications. I remember when I
> was a student, one professor quoted some famous mathematicians said,
> about his work in math :
> "I knit eight armed sweaters. If an octopus comes along and finds them
> useful thats fine." I think this was in regard to Hilbert spaces, which
> were invented in the 1920's in a purely mathematical context, but then
> decades later were found to be the perfect representation for quantum
> mechanics. Mathematics is full of these kinds of eventual applications.
> Galois who lived in the 1820's could not imagine that his theories would
> be useful for modem and satelitte error correcting codes in the future.
>
> Most, but not all mathematicians, are musicians of some sort too. My
> graduate advisor used to play classical violin in community concerts as a
> hobby. As an undergraduate, we had a math club, and had a party at one of
> the professors' houses. Almost everyone there took a turn on the piano or
> guitar.
>
> Mathematicians are very much artists.
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