Scott Rickard: The beautiful math behind the world's ugliest music
Scott Rickard: The beautiful math behind the ugliest music
Scott Rickard is passionate about mathematics, music -- and educating the next generation of scientists and mathematicians. Full bio
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a motif, a musical idea,
motiv, muzičku ideju,
the expectation for repetition,
očekivanja za ponavljanje,
or we break the repetition.
ili prekinemo ponavljanje.
are key to beauty,
of patterns sound like,
that had no repetition whatsoever in it?
bez ikakvog ponavljanja?
matematičko pitanje.
mathematical question.
u kom uopšte nema ponavljanja?
that has no repetition whatsoever?
out, is extremely difficult,
izbeći ponavljanje,
that we can actually do it
who was hunting for submarines.
to develop the world's perfect sonar ping
da stvori savršeni sonarni signal
pattern-free music.
of the talk is today.
out some sound in the water,
back, it goes down, echoes back.
ide dole, vraća se eho.
govori vam koliko je udaljen:
tells you how far away it is:
što se nešto kreće ka vama;
is moving toward you;
udaljava se od vas.
it's moving away from you.
savršeni sonarni signal?
a perfect sonar ping?
čovek po imenu Džon Kostas
by the name of John Costas
expensive sonar system.
sonarnom sistemu za mornaricu.
they were using was inappropriate.
koji su koristili nije bio odgovarajući.
like the following here.
and this is time.
kao note, a ovo je vreme.
they were using, a down chirp.
koji su koristili, silazne modulacije.
like shifts of itself.
kao da se smenjuje.
two notes is the same as the second two,
kao između druge dve i tako dalje.
kind of sonar ping,
drugačiji sonarni signal
of dots, but they're not.
šablon tačkica, ali nije.
the relationship between each pair of dots
veza između svakog para tačkica različita.
and every other pair of notes
about these patterns is unusual.
za ove šablone je neobična.
of these patterns.
malo pre njegove smrti.
shortly before his death.
working for the Navy.
koji je radio za mornaricu.
up with them to size 12 --
do veličine 12 -
and thought maybe they don't exist
da možda ne postoje veći od 12.
matematičaru u sredini,
to the mathematician in the middle,
u to vreme, Solomonu Golombu.
at the time, Solomon Golomb.
diskretnih matematičara našeg vremena.
mathematicians of our time.
the right reference
da li mu može reći pravu referencu
about a repetition,
thinking about the problem.
razmišljajući o ovom problemu.
of this gentleman here,
ovog gospodina ovde,
famous mathematician.
a whole branch of mathematics
čitavu granu matematike
called Galois field theory.
zvana Galoaova teorija polja.
because of the way that he died.
for the honor of a young woman.
jedne devojke.
and he accepted.
of his mathematical ideas,
u kojima je napisao: „Molim vas“ -
saying "Please, please" --
get published eventually."
da ovo jednog dana bude objavljeno.“
was shot and died at age 20.
pogođen je i umro u 20. godini.
vašim mobilnim telefonima, internetom,
your cell phones, the internet,
da komunicirate, DVD-ovi,
of Évariste Galois,
iz uma Evariste Galoa,
the legacy that you leave ...
even anticipated
biti iskorišćena.
would be used.
je na kraju objavljena.
was eventually published.
da je baš ta matematika bila potrebna
exactly the mathematics needed
a pattern-free structure.
stvaranja strukture bez šablona.
these patterns using prime number theory."
pomoću teorije prostih brojeva.“
i rešio sonarni problem za mornaricu.
the sonar problem for the Navy.
veličine 88 sa 88.
is sufficient to solve this problem.
je dovoljna za rešavanje ovog problema.
multiplying by the number three:
množenjem brojem tri:
than 89 which happens to be prime,
koji je veći od 89, a koji je prost broj,
until I get back below.
the entire grid, 88 by 88.
the world premiere
pattern-free piano sonata.
koje je ikada napisano,
beautiful pieces ever written,
i čuvenom motivu „ta, na, na, na“.
and the famous "da na na na!" motif.
of times in the symphony --
više stotina puta u simfoniji -
in the first movement alone
movements as well.
je veoma važno za lepotu.
is so important for beauty.
as being just random notes here,
kao o slučajno postavljenim notama ovde,
in some kind of pattern,
u nekakvom šablonu,
bez ikakvih šablona,
would be these pattern-free structures.
bile bi na samom kraju muzike.
those stars on the grid,
one zvezdice na mreži,
of Arnold Schoenberg --
po imenu Arnold Šenberg -
'40s and '50s.
bio je da napiše muziku
from tonal structure.
tonalne strukture.
of the dissonance."
called "tone rows."
before Costas solved the problem
pre nego što je Kostas rešio problem
create these structures.
naprave matematički.
premiere of the perfect ping.
savršenog signala.
veličine 88 sa 88,
a Golomb ruler for the rhythm,
zvane Golombov lenjir za ritam,
time of each pair of notes
svakog para nota
it would be impossible to create.
bilo nemoguće napraviti.
that was developed 200 years ago,
razvijenoj pre 200 godina,
recently and an engineer,
matematičara i inženjera,
to jest da konstruišemo,
this, or construct this,
the world's ugliest piece of music.
najružnije muzičko delo na svetu.
that only a mathematician could write.
koju je samo matematičar mogao napisati.
piece of music, I implore you:
ovo muzičko delo, molim vas,
that you won't find it.
da to nećete naći.
akademije „Simfonija novog sveta“,
at the New World Symphony,
of the perfect ping.
savršenog signala.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Scott Rickard - MathematicianScott Rickard is passionate about mathematics, music -- and educating the next generation of scientists and mathematicians.
Why you should listen
Scott Rickard is a professor at University College Dublin. His interest in both music and math led him to try and solve an interesting math problem: a musical score with no pattern. He has degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering from MIT, and MA and PhD degrees in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Princeton.
At University College Dublin, he founded the Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory, where biologists, geologists, mathematicians, computer scientists, social scientists and economists work on problems that matter to people. He is also the founder of ScienceWithMe!, an online community dedicated to engaging youth through science and math.
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