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The beautiful math behind the world's ugliest music

Scott Rickard · TED

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About

Scott Rickard set out to engineer the ugliest possible piece of music, devoid of repetition, using a mathematical concept known as the Costas Array. In this surprisingly entertaining talk, he shares the math behind musical beauty ... and its opposite.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxMIA
Speaker
Scott Rickard
Year
2011
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Music
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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