# The beautiful math behind the world's ugliest music

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxMIA
- Speaker: Scott Rickard
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics, Music
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_rickard_the_beautiful_math_behind_the_world_s_ugliest_music)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [The beautiful math behind the world's ugliest music](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/scott_rickard_the_beautiful_math_behind_the_world_s_ugliest_music/d6c989aaa40a), 10 min (TED's player)