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4 days ago · The Language of Music: Notes and Rhythm. At the core of music theory are two essential elements: notes and rhythm. Firstly, notes are the building blocks of melody and harmony. In Western music, there are 12 distinct notes, represented by letters from A to G with sharps (#) and flats (b) in between.
3 days ago · For Atiyah, the enigmatic relationship between physics and math all came down to the human brain. “Humans are a product of long evolution, in which powerful brains were an advantage. Such brains evolved in the physical world, so evolutionary success was measured by physical success,” he explained in a 2018 interview.
1 day ago · Hence, there is no absolute motion or absolute rest. This principle provided the basic framework for Newton's laws of motion and is central to Einstein's special theory of relativity.
2 days ago · The tangible benefits of learning language through song . There have been several studies that suggest support for the use of song for language learning. Good et al., (2014) compared two groups of Spanish-speaking English language learners, one who learned a passage through song and one who learned the same passage as an oral
1 day ago · e. Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. [6][17][18] Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely ...
1 day ago · Mathematics is the atom and the microscope, unified so seamlessly it can be hard to tell where discovery ends and invention begins. This little book has a lofty aim: to teach you the language of math. We’ll build from the abstract nouns of number to the active verbs of calculation to the nuanced grammar of algebra.
5 days ago · Limited! I’m not sure I’d claim to have had a limited understanding of general relativity even after getting a 7 in it in fourth year – I got pretty good at manipulating indices, all those tensors and Christoffel symbols, but it was mostly just pattern matching, good enough to solve exam questions.