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Looking at Numbers

By: Tom Johnson, Franck Jedrzejewski

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Paperback | 10 December 2013

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140 Pages

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26.67 x 20.32 x 0.64

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Galileo Galilei said he was "reading the book of nature" as he observed pendulums swinging, but he might also simply have tried to draw the numbers themselves as they fall into networks of permutations or form loops that synchronize at different speeds, or attach themselves to balls passing in and out of the hands of good jugglers. Numbers are, after all, a part of nature. As such, looking at and thinking about them is a way of understanding our relationship to nature. But when we do so in a technical, professional way, we tend to overlook their basic attributes, the things we can understand by simply "looking at numbers."

Tom Johnson is a composer who uses logic and mathematical models, such as combinatorics of numbers, in his music. The patterns he finds while "looking at numbers" can also be explored in drawings. This book focuses on such drawings, their beauty and their mathematical meaning. The accompanying comments were written in collaboration with the mathematician Franck Jedrzejewski.

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"T. Johnson and F. Jedrzejewski's book Looking at numbers presents a dual perspective (musical and mathematical) on making sense of a large set of drawings created by Johnson to illustrate self-discovered patterns in finite collections of numbers. ... Overall, for a non-expert in the overlap of music and mathematics, the book is interesting and fairly well written." (Guadalupe I. Lozano, Mathematical Reviews, June, 2015)

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