John Carlos Baez on Nostr: Hardcore math tweet. My friend James Dolan and I have been talking about math for ...
Hardcore math tweet.
My friend James Dolan and I have been talking about math for decades, lately for 2 hours a week on Zoom. Here are some of those conversations. Just two mathematicians struggling to figure stuff out - disorganized and confused. But I'm glad to get these videos out there, and some people are actually watching them.
2023-11-06
https://youtu.be/07YB-ENbys8
Here we're talking about the mathematics of tuning systems. James is discussing some possible relations between just intonation and Coxeter groups - see the series starting here:
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2023/10/07/pythagorean-tuning/
How the PLR group acts on the Tonnetz (or 'tone net'):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnetz
https://alpof.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/an-introduction-to-neo-riemannian-theory-9/
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My friend James Dolan and I have been talking about math for decades, lately for 2 hours a week on Zoom. Here are some of those conversations. Just two mathematicians struggling to figure stuff out - disorganized and confused. But I'm glad to get these videos out there, and some people are actually watching them.
2023-11-06
https://youtu.be/07YB-ENbys8
Here we're talking about the mathematics of tuning systems. James is discussing some possible relations between just intonation and Coxeter groups - see the series starting here:
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2023/10/07/pythagorean-tuning/
How the PLR group acts on the Tonnetz (or 'tone net'):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnetz
https://alpof.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/an-introduction-to-neo-riemannian-theory-9/
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