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SUMMARY:Math Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:
 Student GAUSS Seminar\n
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 Joshua Ruiter from Michigan 
 State University will be speaking.\n
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 The title is "An algebraic approach to musical 
 scales."\n
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 Contact Keshav Sutrave (sutravek@msu.edu) 
 for more information.\n
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 This talk 
 is motivated by applications to music theory, 
 especially the construction of musical scales. 
 We'll describe how to think of "good" scales 
 as a subgroups of S^1, then dip our toes 
 into the theory of continued fractions to understand 
 why some "good" scales are "better" than 
 others. In particular, we can get a satisfying 
 mathematical reason for the ubiquity of 
 12-tone equal temperament scale system.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Department of Mathematics\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: https://www.math.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: Department of Mathematics\n
 Contact phone: (517) 353-0844\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://www.math.msu.edu/Seminars/CalendarView.aspx?month-of=September2016\n
LOCATION:Zoom link provided on Math Seminars page
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