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"On the whole, mathematicians dont have a particularly great image."
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Christopher Budd (mathematician)People often say theres a close link between math and music, and mathe — Christopher Budd (mathematician)
"People often say theres a close link between math and music, and mathematicians and musicians, and thats absolutely true. Music uses a lot of math. So some musical notes sound better when you play them together. ...The reason was discovered by... Pythagoras. ...He is very very famous for Pythagoras theorem, which was invented by the Chinese about 1,000 years before him. ...But he absolutely did do the work on musical notes. ...[H]e measured the length of strings of instruments and he compared the lengths with notes that sounded good together. ...He realized that the octave [C:C] corresponds to two strings, one being twice the length of the other [2:1], C:G ... 3/2 and C:E proportion 5/4, and Pythagoras found an incredible link between musical harmony and fractions."
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Christopher Budd (mathematician)
Christopher Budd (mathematician)
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Christopher John Budd is a British mathematician known especially for his contribution to non-linear differential equations and their applications in industry. He is currently Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Bath, and was Professor of Geometry at Gresham College from 2016 to 2020.
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"The technology that we celebrate today, everything we do, is all heavily based on math. In my pocket I have my ... absolutely stuffed full of mathematics, and lots of mathematicians work in the smart phone industry."
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"[T]he shame about all of this is not only is it not true. Its really, really, really not true! ...Math is basically the basis of the modern world. The modern world would simply not exist without mathematics."
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"If there wasnt air around me, Id die very very quickly... and math is like that for technology. Take the math away, the technology fails, but just like the air around us its invisible, and lots of people dont know its there."
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"The was... one of the first scientific research establishments in the U.K. ...They reckon about 30 elements were discovered in the Royal Institution. A number of s came out of the Royal Institution. Humphry Davy worked in the Royal Institution, the Braggs [William Henry and Lawrence]... [etc.,] but possibly the most famous... was... Michael Faraday... [H]e discovered experimentally the link between electricity and magnetism and... essentially invented the and the , and those have then been developed by people like Edison and Tesla into the power generation system we so celebrate today."
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"[S]ome people are... quite frightened of math, or even... suspicious of math."
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