TY - BOOK ED - Diderot Mathematical Forum TI - Mathematics and music: a Diderot Mathematical Forum SN - 3540437274 AV - ML3800 .M246 2002 PY - 2002///] CY - Berlin, New York PB - Springer N1 - "Under the auspices of the European Mathematical Society the Fourth Diderot Mathematical Forum took place simultaneously in Lisbon, Paris, and Vienna, in 3-4 December 1999"--P. [V]; Includes bibliographical references; Proportions in ancient and medieval music; M.P. Ferreira --; Sounding algebra: relations between combinatorics and music from Mersenne to Euler; E. Knobloch --; Use of mechanical devices and numerical algorithms in the 18th century for the equal temperament of the musical scale; B. Scimemi --; Lagrange, "working mathematician" on music considered as a source for science; J. Dhombres --; Musical patterns; W. Hodges, R.J. Wilson --; Questions of logic: writing, dialectics and musical strategies; F. Nicolas --; Formalization of logic and the issue of meaning; M.-J. Durand-Richard --; Musical analysis using mathematical proceedings in the XXth century; L. Fichet --; Universal prediction applied to stylistic music generation; S. Dubnov, G. Assayag --; Ethnomusicology, ethnomathematics. The logic underlying orally transmitted artistic practices; M. Chemillier --; Expressing coherence of musical perception in formal logic; / M. Leman --; Topos geometry of musical logic; G. Mazzola --; Computing musical sound; J.-C. Risset --; Mathematics of tuning musical instruments - a simple toolkit for experiments; E. Neuwirth --; Musical communication chain and its modeling; X. Serra --; Computational models for musical sound sources; G. De Poli, D. Rocchesso ER -