The Mathematics of Musical Composition
Gresham College Lectures
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Per Nog's Sequence Is a Boost to Creativity
An infinity series is an example of something in mathematics that we call er a recursive sequence, and its based on a recurrence relation. The most well known of these kinds of sequence is the phibonlgy sequence where each term is the sum of the previous two terms. Per nog's sequence is defined by a little bit more of a complex, complicated set of relationships than the fipanaci sequence. And you know that some amount of constraint is a boost to creativity. We don't say sonnets are too restrictive a form. You know, it helps us create all these things. They are giving you a structure to work with,. magic squares and everything else, ok,
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