{"id":5046,"date":"2013-01-22T19:48:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T19:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=5046"},"modified":"2013-01-22T19:48:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T19:48:58","slug":"listening-to-music-by-jointly-reading-the-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/listening-to-music-by-jointly-reading-the-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening to music by jointly reading the score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2013\/01\/thurston-on-mathematical-proof\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Thurston<\/a>,\u00a0this with an arresting image of mathematical communication:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have an inexorable instinct to convey through speech content that is not easily spoken.\u00a0 Because of this tendency, mathematics takes a highly symbolic, algebraic, and technical form.\u00a0 Few people listening to a technical discourse are hearing a story. Most readers of mathematics (if they happen\u00a0not to be totally baffled) register only technical details &#8211; which are essentially different from the original thoughts we put into mathematical discourse.\u00a0 The meaning, the poetry, the music, and the beauty of\u00a0mathematics are generally lost.\u00a0 It&#8217;s as if an audience were to attend a concert where the musicians, unable to perform in a way the audience could appreciate, just handed out copies of the score.\u00a0 In mathematics, it happens frequently that both the performers and the audience are oblivious to what went wrong, even though the failure of communication is obvious to all.&#8221; (Thurston 2011, page xi)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Reference:<\/em><br \/>\nWilliam P. Thurston [2011]:\u00a0\u00a0 Foreword.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>The Best Writing on Mathematics: 2010<\/em>.\u00a0 Edited by Mircea Pitici.\u00a0 Princeton, NJ, USA:\u00a0 Princeton University Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another quote from Bill Thurston,\u00a0this with an arresting image of mathematical communication: We have an inexorable instinct to convey through speech content that is not easily spoken.\u00a0 Because of this tendency, mathematics takes a highly symbolic, algebraic, and technical form.\u00a0 Few people listening to a technical discourse are hearing a story. Most readers of mathematics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-intelligence","category-mathematics","p1","y2013","m01","d22","h19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}