Author Edward Rothstein Links Music and Mathematics From: Morning Edition (NPR) | Date: October 12, 1995 | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

NPR Morning Edition

10-12-1995

Edward Rothstein, cultural critic-at-large for "The New York Times", discusses his book, "Emblems of the Mind- The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics". Rothstein discusses the link between math and music.

ALEX CHADWICK, Host: Musicians sometimes use the language of mathematics to explain their art. The 19th Century composer Frederic Chopin said `The fugue is like pure logic in music,' and mathematicians have been known to u...

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