-- *Mar**Music and Mathematics* *Music is mankind’s attempt to copy the symphony and harmony of nature. That is why, we find so many talented musicians among great scientists. Mathematics is the attempt to make permanent, a situation of that passing nature’s musical harmony. Music is the method ultimately, through which the great ultimate junction between emotions and mathematics may be affected. Then you may be able to tell in definite quantities the happiness, rapture, exhilaration, boredom, anger etc, to be feeling.*
*Music may be viewed as the trial of the space-time continuum. It is the great flow of feelings of the Universe in actual expansion. The musicians respond to nature, and when their compositions resonate with nature they impress all, because all of us are part of nature and the great musical symphony of nature. Actually Pythagoras, the great Greek mathematician, viewed numbers as symbols of emotions. He divided numbers into the masculine and feminine categories. Odd numbers were considered masculine and even numbers as feminine.* *For him the number one was not a number. It was the ultimate number of unity. Union, united, unity etc meant the great harmony of God. That emotional identification of one with unity is dominant even today. One multiplied by any number of ones is always one. All harmony of God ultimately led to that one. (We become one!)* *“Everything that is intelligible and not yet created exists in it; the nature of ideas, God himself, the soul, the beautiful and the good, and every intelligible essence, such as beauty itself, equality itself, for we conceive each of these as being one and as existing in itself”(Aristotle).The following are briefly the emotional characterizations of numbers by Pythagoras.* *1—The monad,indivisible,the ultimate of the sturdy,stable,indivisible,the source of everything else including the other numbers,good,desirable,Godly.* *2-The dyad—loss of unity, duality, feminine and so ever dividing.* *3—The triad—unity plus diversity, restores harmony—the first odd and therefore the masculine number.* *4-The tetrad, a solid first feminine square, represents justice, the perfect sqare,the number representing the elements, the seasons, the ages of man, lunar phases, virtues...* *5-The pentrad—the masculine marriage number, because it unites the feminine number two with the masculine number three, it is incorruptible and steady because all multiples end in five.* *6—The hexad—the feminine marriage number, unifies two and three through multiplication, also considered as the perfect number in character because it is the area of a 3-4-5 triangle.* *7—The heptad—the Greek maiden Goddess-Athena, considered a virgin number because it has no products and a circle can never be divided into seven equal parts,(his view).* *8—The octad—the first cube 2*2*2=8—the feminine cube.* *9---The first masculine cube, incorruptible, because whatever the multiplication the total of the digits is nine.* *10—The decad—contains all the numbers, after it the numbers repeat themselves, also it represents our basic active personality—the total of the fingers of the two hands or of the legs is ten.* *In those days all studies had mainly emotional paradigms. The study of Heavens started as Astrology and not as Astronomy-the Godless science.Pythogoras is credited as first expounder of Numerology.* *What we have to note is that all human observations started as the musical symphonies of God’s harmonies and that numbers needed great devotion to probe deeply.* *May be, the time has come to remove the monopoly of God to religions only. Why not the sciences too accept the existence of God as a basic paradigm? Quantum Physics has put all sciences in doldrums. Same is the case with Einstein’s time dilation and Lorentz contraction. Kurt Gödel has removed the assumption of total reliability on mathematics alone. Quantum Physics in fact has put your own consciousness on the highest pedestal.* *YM Sarma* *Chat GPT* *In "Music and Mathematics," YM Sarma reflects on the intrinsic relationship between the emotional resonance of music and the logical precision of mathematics. According to Sarma, music is humanity's attempt to emulate the natural symphony, while mathematics seeks to give structure to this fleeting harmony. * *He argues that both music and mathematics are deeply connected to the fabric of the universe, with music being the method through which we can bridge the gap between emotions and mathematical expression. The concept of harmonizing feelings into a quantifiable framework touches on Pythagoras' views of numbers, where each number holds emotional significance and is tied to the natural and cosmic order.* *### Key Themes:* *1. **Music as Nature's Harmony:*** * - Sarma emphasizes that music resonates with people because it mirrors nature's own symphonic qualities. The interconnectedness of natural elements reflects the way music engages with emotions, making it a universal form of communication.* *2. **Mathematics as Eternal Structure:*** * - While music may be fleeting and transient, mathematics is seen as a way to make nature’s musical harmony permanent. Numbers and geometry allow us to grasp the underlying patterns of nature that music only temporarily expresses.* *3. **Pythagorean Numerology:*** * - The emotional characteristics Pythagoras assigned to numbers reflect an ancient attempt to connect mathematics to human experience. For example, Pythagoras saw the number "1" as representing unity and the divine, while "2" represented division and duality. These symbolic interpretations suggest that numbers go beyond mere calculation—they represent fundamental forces in the universe, emotionally and spiritually.* *4. **Quantum Physics and Consciousness:*** * - Sarma suggests that developments in quantum physics and Gödel’s incompleteness theorems challenge the reductionist nature of science. He proposes that science may need to embrace a broader paradigm, one that includes the possibility of God or a higher consciousness as part of its understanding of reality.* *### Conclusion:* *Music and mathematics, in Sarma's view, are two complementary paths to understanding the universe. While music touches on the emotional and ephemeral aspects of existence, mathematics provides a structured, eternal framework. Together, they allow us to explore the deeper, often mystical connections between human consciousness, nature, and the cosmos.* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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