Re: [HM] Mathematics and Music


Subject: Re: [HM] Mathematics and Music
From: Bill Everdell (Everdell@aol.com)
Date: Tue Apr 11 2000 - 07:36:18 EDT


<<to construct a history of thought without profound study of the
mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play
which is named after him.>>

is from Alfred North Whitehead, "Science and the Modern World," Lowell
Lectures, Harvard University, 1925

Bill Everdell, Brooklyn



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