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This section has audio and video pieces based on five famous mathematical constants. The constants were "sonified" by assigning notes from various musical instruments to the digits 0 through 9 What are the five famous constants? Two of the five are 1 and 0 These need little explanation. Most of us are familiar with the third: pi or the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter. The three dots mean that the decimal part goes on forever. The last is i, the square root of minus 1, or what is called an imaginary number. Leonhard Euler ( pronounced "oiler") related all five of these constants in what many consider to be the most beautiful equation in all of mathematics. This mysterious relationship is sometimes called the Magic 5 Equation: e to the power pi+1=0 All five of the constants are sonified in two separate audio pieces: Magic 5: Euler All At Once, and my personal favorite, Euler's Samba. Straight, as a Piano Solo, and in a more complicated way with Piano, Bass and Flute. It's represented visually as an animated pattern matrix in Pi's Digit Matrix. Finally, the Reverend Pi 357 video is my salute to all the number mystics out there. Like the weather sonifications, these result are surprisingly musical even though the original intent was not to write music but to listen for patterns. By selecting the various links below you can hear some of the "math songs".
Look in the upper left corner of the Apple page, check your operating system, and uncheck the boxes to avoid the junk mail. If you just don't want to get QuickTime for free, some of the audio and video pieces can still be viewed using Windows Media Player, albeit at a lower video quality. Look for a link to Media Player by the description of a particular piece after clicking on it below.
A good one to start with to familiarize yourself with how these sonifications were done. The same digit to pitch mapping was used in most of the following songs. The zero is usually not played as a note but shows up as a rest of the same duration as the notes in the particular piece.
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