John Carlos Baez on Nostr: Merry Xmas Eve! I'm not Christian, I'm a Mathematician, but I love Xmas, Ymas and ...
Merry Xmas Eve! I'm not Christian, I'm a Mathematician, but I love Xmas, Ymas and Zmas.
I'm giving a talk on the math of tuning systems and I thought I'd share it here as a kind of present to y'all.
I'll start with the basics today and do the more advanced part tomorrow. But I hope even the basics contain a few twists that not everyone knows.
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