Toward an exploratory medium for mathematics

cognitivemedium.com · 9,350 words · saved by 3 readers

The world's oldest complete piece of surviving music is the 3,400-year-old Hurrian cult hymn. The hymn was found inscribed on clay tablets excavated from the ancient city of Ugarit, in modern-day Syria. Sometime after the hymn was composed, the idea of using notation to record music was lost. Writing two millennia later, in the seventh century CE, the polymath Isidore of Seville stated that “unless [musical] sounds are held by the memory of man, they perish, because they cannot be written down.”

Toward an exploratory medium for mathematics Toward an exploratory medium for mathematics Michael Nielsen / Recurse Center / February 2016 The world's oldest complete piece of surviving music is the 3,400-year-old Hurrian cult hymn . The hymn was found inscribed on clay tablets excavated from the ancient city of Ugarit, in modern-day Syria. Sometime after the hymn was composed, the idea of using notation to record music was lost. Writing two millennia later, in the seventh century CE, the polymath Isidore of Seville stated that "unless [musical] sounds are held by the memory of man, they peris

Toward an exploratory medium for mathematics

saved by

related reading