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. 1990 Feb;87(3):938–941. doi: 10.1073/pnas.87.3.938

Fractal geometry of music.

K J Hsü 1, A J Hsü 1
PMCID: PMC53384  PMID: 11607061

Abstract

Music critics have compared Bach's music to the precision of mathematics. What "mathematics" and what "precision" are the questions for a curious scientist. The purpose of this short note is to suggest that the mathematics is, at least in part, Mandelbrot's fractal geometry and the precision is the deviation from a log-log linear plot.

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