Why do some melodies feel instantly right, balanced, memorable and satisfying, even if you have never heard them before? New research from the University of Waterloo suggests that more than creativity ...
Why do some melodies feel instantly right, balanced, memorable and satisfying, even if you have never heard them before? New research from the ...
Author Mario Livio has studied the relationship between art and mathematics. He tells Michele Norris most of us are attracted to symmetry spiced by some elements of surprise... and that combo is the ...
The 2008 Abel Prize was awarded to John Griggs Thompson of the University of Florida and Jacques Tits of the Collège de France for their contributions to group theory, the mathematical field that ...
A type of symmetry so unusual that it was called a “pariah” turns out to have deep connections to number theory. In 1892, the mathematician Otto Hölder posed a question that would occupy the field for ...
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