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Noam Elkies es matemático estadounidense.

✵ 25. agosto 1966
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Noam Elkies: Frases en inglés

“I have a feeling it is more or less the same part of my brain which does both [math and music]… they speak to the same place, the same aesthetic…”

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Response to the question "What is behind this mysterious math-music link?"
Music + Math: A Common Equation?, 1988

“One does not have to have experience raising children through school, dealing with family tragedies, and so forth, to be able to find three numbers whose fourth powers add up to another one.”

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Are Mathematicians Past Their Prime at 35? http://www.massey.ac.nz/~rmclachl/overthehill.html

“You start out with simple concepts,.. All of this beautiful edifice of geometry, for example, comes out of this configuration of lines and points… Think of the simple opening--dum dum dum dum!--of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. In music you start out with a trivial motif and it turns into this beautiful, intricate composition,… Again, it all stems from this small, very simple idea.”

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Talking about "a stark, basic principle underpins even the most complex symphony or mathematical application."
Music + Math: A Common Equation?, 1988

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