Journal article

Fractal geometry of music.

  • Hsü KJ Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Hsü AJ
  • 1990-02-01
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  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. - 1990
English Music critics have compared Bach's music to the precision of mathematics. What "mathematics" and what "precision" are the questions for a curious scientist. The purpose of this short note is to suggest that the mathematics is, at least in part, Mandelbrot's fractal geometry and the precision is the deviation from a log-log linear plot.
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