Scott Rickard: The beautiful math behind the ugliest music - TED Talks

Scott Rickard set out to engineer the ugliest possible piece of music, devoid of repetition, using a mathematical concept known as the Golomb ruler. In this talk, he shares the math behind musical beauty (and its opposite). (Filmed at TEDxMIA.)

Scott Rickard is passionate about mathematics, music — and educating the next generation of scientists and mathematicians.

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14 Feb This entry was published on February 14, 2013 at 9:00 am. It’s filed under TED Talks, Video and tagged Directories, Education, Golomb, Golomb ruler, Math, Mathematics, Scott Rickard, Teaching Resources. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.