Math / Music Meetings.
Encounters for the General Public
Mathematics in the Musical Universe
An initiation to the relationship between mathematics and music, from undulating phenomena to algebraic structures and geometric representations used in musical composition followed by demonstrations by researchers.
Creativity in Music and Mathematics
Pierre Boulez & Alain Connes
Encounter with two major figures of musical creation and contemporary mathematical research: Pierre Boulez and Alain Connes.
Mathematics / Aesthetics / Arts
Alain Badiou
Eminent figure of contemporary thought, playwright, politically committed intellectual, controversial polemicist, Alain Badiou is one of the rare philosophers today that maintains an intense and constant relationship with mathematics, using the theory of ensembles inherited from Georg Cantor to build his own system of logic.
Creativity in Mathematics and the Arts
Do mathematics have a unique place within scientific disciplines, as music does within artistic practices?
- © Thomas Banchoff. Pendulum Tori
Concert
Mathematics-Music: Kontakte
In the reflection between mathematics and music, the works performed during this evening's concert reveal several artistic attitudes.
Scientific Conference
MCM 2011
Mathematics and Computation in Music
The third international conference Mathematics and Computation in Music (MCM 2011), is a multi-disciplinary platform dedicated to the communication and exchange of ideas among people who use mathematics in the arts, computer music, music theory, composition, and musicology.