Ravi Shankar, India's famous sitar player
Great Lives
00:00
Is There Something Mathematical About Indian Music?
People often say there's something mathematical about indian music. Is there anything in that? Yes and a tat. aci ravi shanka said, that he was always attracted to calculation. And if at has a great history of mathematics. We think one of the first recorded use of the number zero isn't thrs oeting aled the bakshali manuscript in the third or fourth century. Trigonometry was developed partly in carola and south india,. solving quadratic equations, or even decimal systems. It's its extraordinary year to watch.
Transcript
Play full episode
