Subsets
Consider the set of digits 1,2,3,4,5. Taking the elements two at a time, we have 10 subsets: 1,2, 1,3, 1,4, 1,5, 2,3, 2,4, 2,5, 3,4, 3,5, 4,5. This is quite obvious, and yet the forms that result when you really look at these pairs and try to make connect
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Looking at Numbers
Looking at Numbers
Tom Johnson • Franck Jedrzejewski
Looking at Numbers
Tom Johnson Paris France
Franck Jedrzejewski Viroflay France
Additional material to this book can be downloaded from http://extras.springer.com/ ‘‘Rational Melody No. 15’’ from Tom Johnson: Rational Melodies. New World Records #80705-2 (P) 2008 2008 Anthology of Recorded Music. Inc. Used by permission
ISBN 978-3-0348-0553-7 ISBN 978-3-0348-0554-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-0348-0554-4
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While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won’t be able to understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that. Richard P. Feynman in QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985)
Preface 1
I am a composer and all of my professional training has been in music, but my compositions often derive from patterns I find in combinations of numbers, and this exploration has required me to make many drawings. These drawings usually become pieces of music in one way or another, but at the same time, they are self-sufficient, and they have a beauty of their own that does n
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