Emblems of Mind The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics

Name: Emblems of Mind The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics
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ISBN: 9780226729541

ISBN-10: 0226729540

ISBN-13: 9780226729541

Edition: 2006

Authors: Edward Rothstein

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One is a science, the other an art; one useful, the other seemingly decorative, but mathematics and music share common origins in cult and mystery and have been linked throughout history. Emblems of Mind is Edward Rothstein’s classic exploration of their profound similarities, a journey into their “inner life.” Along the way, Rothstein explains how mathematics makes sense of space, how music tells a story, how theories are constructed, how melody is shaped. He invokes the poetry of Wordsworth, the anthropology of Lévi-Strauss, the imagery of Plato, and the philosophy of Kant. Math and music, Rothstein shows, apply comparable methods as they create their abstractions, display similar…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface to the 2006 Edition


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Prelude: The Need for Metaphor



Partita: The Inner Life of Mathematics



Sonata: The Inner Life of Music



Theme and Variations: The Pursuit of Beauty



Fugue: The Making of Truth



Chorale: The Texture of Thought


Selected Bibliography


Index