This album includes more technical mathematics than math
rock does. The album starts with ‘ Music Is Math’. Another
track, which is called ‘A is to B as B is to C’ is an allusion to
the golden ratio, a topic where the ratio of the area of two
objects is equal to the ratio of the sum of the larger shape. The
song ‘ The Devil Is In The Details’ contains bass frequencies
which are arranged in the order of the Fibonacci Sequence. The
album contains 23 tracks, which is a reference to the ’23
The Golden Ratio
Enigma’, a belief that every event to ever occur is based around
the number 23 .
Most interestingly, the song ‘ The Smallest Weird Number’
introduces the ‘weird number’. What is the smallest weirdest
number, you ask? According to mathematics, it is 70, which is
unsurprisingly the name of their recording company. Weird
numbers are more of an elaborate trick, or a way to pass the
time, and to my knowledge, do not include a technical side
however. Let us take 70. Its factors are 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 35
which when added up, make 74. However, what makes a
number ‘weird’ is the fact that you cannot add any of these
numbers, in any order, to make 70 itself.
5+7+10+14+35 = 71
5+7+10+14+35 = 69
The duo has another song called ‘Sixtyten’ which is a perfectly normal alternative for the word ‘seventy’ but
strangely not accepted on GCSE Maths Papers for some reason.
All in all, this can hopefully show you that mathematics can go beyond the usual differentiation exercise and
can be extended to more creative heights. Who knows, maybe one day, you will be allowed to listen to
music in maths lessons thanks to this article.
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