Steve Levitt
&
Sarah Hart
,
People I (Mostly) Admire
49. Mathematician Sarah Hart on Why Numbers are Music to Our Ears
30 Oct 2021
• 46 min
• EN
Playing notes on her piano, she demonstrates for Steve why whole numbers sound pleasing, why octaves are mathematically imperfect, and how math underlies musical composition. Sarah, a professor at the University of London and Gresham College, also talks with Steve about the gender gap in mathematics and why being interested in everything can be a problem.
From "People I (Mostly) Admire"
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