[sdiy] OT: Interesting book on maths & music

[Grant Richter]

Looks like a very excellent reference, and Wendy Carlos scales have  
their own chapter.

"Eigenvalues of the Laplace operator" Just a little light reading.

And mathematical writing is SO juicy and mathematician's write in  
such a light hearted and humorous style!



On Dec 6, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Tim Stinchcombe wrote:

> Hi list,
> 	I've just taken delivery of a new book, containing much interesting
> and useful stuff: scales and different tuning systems; FM synthesis  
> (with
> lots on the DX7); Karplus-Strong; sampling; Fourier analysis; and  
> much more
> besides. I expect others will find it interesting too:
>
> Music: A Mathematical Offering
> David J. Benson
> Cambridge University Press, Nov 2006, 0521853877
>
> Here's the authors page for it:
>
> <http://www.maths.abdn.ac.uk/~bensondj/html/maths-music.html>
>
> which has a complete contents listing, and more importantly for  
> some, there
> is downloadable pdf of it there too!
>
> Tim
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