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,
bir motif, bir müzik fikri,
the expectation for repetition,
tekrardan beklentilerimiz var,
or we break the repetition.
ya da kırıyoruz.
are key to beauty,
güzelliyin anahtarıysa,
of patterns sound like,
that had no repetition whatsoever in it?
kulağa nasıl gelir?
mathematical question.
that has no repetition whatsoever?
bir müzik yapmak mümkün mü?
out, is extremely difficult,
that we can actually do it
who was hunting for submarines.
to develop the world's perfect sonar ping
göndermeye çalışan bir adam
pattern-free music.
of the talk is today.
hatırlatacak olursak,
out some sound in the water,
back, it goes down, echoes back.
tells you how far away it is:
bize mesafenin uzunluğunu söyler :
is moving toward you;
it's moving away from you.
cismin sizden uzaklaştığını gösterir.
a perfect sonar ping?
by the name of John Costas
expensive sonar system.
üzerinde çalışıyordu.
they were using was inappropriate.
sinyâl doğru seçilmemişti.
like the following here.
and this is time.
zaman şeklinde düşünebilirsiniz.
they were using, a down chirp.
zayıf cıvıltılı sonar sinyaldi.
like shifts of itself.
görünüyor.
two notes is the same as the second two,
iki not arasındakı ilişkinin aynısı ve
kind of sonar ping,
of dots, but they're not.
ama değillerdi.
the relationship between each pair of dots
belirgin olduğunu
and every other pair of notes
about these patterns is unusual.
farklı, olağandışıdır.
of these patterns.
shortly before his death.
ölümünden kısa süre önce.
working for the Navy.
bir deniz radarı mühendisiydi.
up with them to size 12 --
and thought maybe they don't exist
12'den büyük
to the mathematician in the middle,
Kaliforniya'da yaşayan matematikçi
at the time, Solomon Golomb.
mathematicians of our time.
ustalarından biriydi.
the right reference
nerede olduğunu doğru referansla
about a repetition,
thinking about the problem.
problemin üzerinde çalışmakla geçirdi.
of this gentleman here,
famous mathematician.
matematik alanını keşfetmesi ki
a whole branch of mathematics
called Galois field theory.
olarak adlandırılır.
because of the way that he died.
for the honor of a young woman.
onuru için ayağa kalkar.
and he accepted.
of his mathematical ideas,
saying "Please, please" --
get published eventually."
yayınlandığını görün."
was shot and died at age 20.
ateş edilerek öldürülür.
your cell phones, the internet,
yardım eden matematik
of Évariste Galois,
Evariste Galois'in
the legacy that you leave ...
even anticipated
would be used.
tahmin edemezdi.
was eventually published.
sonunda yayınlandı.
exactly the mathematics needed
bu tamamen aradığı şeydi --
a pattern-free structure.
yaratmak için gereken matematik.
şöyle söylüyordu:
these patterns using prime number theory."
asal sayı teorisini kullanmak."
the sonar problem for the Navy.
sonar problemi çözmeyi başardı.
is sufficient to solve this problem.
bu problem için yeterlidir.
multiplying by the number three:
3'e çarpma işlemi yapılarak oluşturuldu:
than 89 which happens to be prime,
until I get back below.
89'ları alıyorum.
the entire grid, 88 by 88.
kafes dolmuş olacak.
the world premiere
pattern-free piano sonata.
beautiful pieces ever written,
en iyi müzikler hakkında düşünelim,
and the famous "da na na na!" motif.
"da na na na!" motifi.
of times in the symphony --
birçok yerinde rast gelebilirsiniz --
in the first movement alone
movements as well.
is so important for beauty.
müziğin estetiği için çok önemli.
as being just random notes here,
rasgele bir müzik ve bir şekilde,
in some kind of pattern,
herhangi bir desenle düşünürseniz,
would be these pattern-free structures.
yapıdan oluşurdu.
those stars on the grid,
ızgaralardakı notalar
of Arnold Schoenberg --
'40s and '50s.
40'larda ve 50'lerde düşündü.
from tonal structure.
of the dissonance."
adlandırdı.
called "tone rows."
before Costas solved the problem
bu yapıları isbat ettiğinde
create these structures.
premiere of the perfect ping.
ilk defa dinleyeceğiz.
a Golomb ruler for the rhythm,
time of each pair of notes
neredeyse mümkünsüzdür.
it would be impossible to create.
bunu yaratmak mümkün değil.
that was developed 200 years ago,
recently and an engineer,
ve mühendis sayesinde
this, or construct this,
mümkün olduğunu öğrendik.
the world's ugliest piece of music.
en kötü müziği olmalı.
that only a mathematician could write.
besteleyebileceği bir müzik.
piece of music, I implore you:
that you won't find it.
at the New World Symphony,
Michael Linville
of the perfect ping.
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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