{"id":636,"date":"2004-10-19T00:22:55","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T00:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2004-10-19T00:22:55","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T00:22:55","slug":"music_and_math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Music and Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/morning\/features\/2004\/oct\/artscience\/manjul\/manjul200.jpg\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4111253&#038;sourceCode=RSS\">Richard Harris<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>At 28, Manjul Bhargava has already won a coveted full professorship at Princeton University. An expert in number theory, the study of the properties and relationships of numbers, Bhargava is also a master of the tabla, a small Indian hand drum used to create music with rhythmic, precise patterns.<br \/>\nNumber theory is the type of math that describes the swirl in the head of a sunflower and the curve of a chambered nautilus. Bhargava says it&#8217;s also hidden in the rhythms of classical Indian music, which is both mathematical and improvisational. He sees close links between his two loves &#8212; both create beauty and elegance by weaving together seemingly unconnected ideas.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Harris: At 28, Manjul Bhargava has already won a coveted full professorship at Princeton University. An expert in number theory, the study of the properties and relationships of numbers, Bhargava is also a master of the tabla, a small Indian hand drum used to create music with rhythmic, precise patterns. Number theory is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}