Re: (OT) Music
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 10, 2002, 10:34 |
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Jan van Steenbergen scripsit:
> Nonono! Music involves many factors, is even dominated by them, that don't play
> a role of any significance in mathematics, like: aesthetics, taste, emotion...
I think these are *exactly* the factors that determine what is beautiful
mathematics, and the criterion of so-called "pure" mathematics is indeed
beauty. Of course, this raises the question of what beauty is, to which
I can do no better than William Blake: "Exuberance is beauty".
Mathematics is an art, like modern painting, that takes a good deal of
preliminary training to appreciate. Nevertheless it is an art.
> If music is really to be reduced to a science, then I would say, that it is a
> combination of physics and biochemistry.
And if sculpture is to be reduced to a science, it is also a combination
of physics and biochemistry....
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I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
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