“Watch the strength of the sound!”
“Watch the strength of the sound!”

Fractal geometry of music.

Abstract Music critics have compared Bach’s music to the precision of mathematics. What “mathematics” and what “precision” are the questions for a curious scientist. The purpose of this short note is to suggest that the mathematics is, at...

Hunting fractals in the music of J. S. Bach

Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot coined the term “fractal” in a 1975 book on the subject, and his seminal 1982 book The Fractal Geometry of Nature, which catalogs the ubiquity of the geometric patterns, is widely credited for bringing them to the masses....