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Scott Rickard: The beautiful math behind the ugliest music
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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. Full bio ยป
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