For many centuries many scientists or musicians tried to find connections between music and mathematics, but they didn’t find any precise proof. Now, with the help of a breakthrough that Prof Dmitri Tymoczko from the Princeton University, discovered a couple of years ago, we know that there is a strong link between them.
Alongside Clifton Callender from Florida State University and Ian Quinn from the Yale University, Prof Tymoczko developed a new method to analyze and categorize music in order to reduce the music to a mathematical kernel.
According to Prof Tymoczko, now we can understand in a deeper way the bonds between different genres of music because they managed to “take sequences of notes, like chords, rhythms and scales, and categorize them so they can be grouped into “families”.
In the end, Tymoczko explained the possibilities that their discovery will bring - “you could create new kinds of musical instruments or new kinds of toys”.
