{"id":210,"date":"2006-11-13T11:18:14","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T11:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2006\/11\/13\/great-math-music\/"},"modified":"2006-11-13T11:18:14","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T11:18:14","slug":"great-math-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/13\/great-math-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Math Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By way of PZ, I just found [the website of Jonathan Coulton](http:\/\/www.jonathancoulton.com\/songs\/), a musician who seems to specialize in humorous and geeky songs. The music is good; the lyrics are absolutely fantastic.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s an example that he gives away, called &#8220;Mandelbrot Set&#8221;. (For embedding it here, I drastically stripped it from 160K stereo sample to just 16K mono; go to his homepage to get the real, full-quality version.)<\/p>\n<p>Just to give you an idea, here&#8217;s the lyrics for the first verse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPathological monsters! cried the terrified mathematician<br \/>\nEvery one of them is a splinter in my eye<br \/>\nI hate the Peano Space and the Koch Curve<br \/>\nI fear the Cantor Ternary Set<br \/>\nAnd the Sierpinski Gasket makes me want to cry<br \/>\nAnd a million miles away a butterfly flapped its wings<br \/>\nOn a cold November day a man named Benoit Mandelbrot was born\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go. Listen. Buy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By way of PZ, I just found [the website of Jonathan Coulton](http:\/\/www.jonathancoulton.com\/songs\/), a musician who seems to specialize in humorous and geeky songs. The music is good; the lyrics are absolutely fantastic. Here&#8217;s an example that he gives away, called &#8220;Mandelbrot Set&#8221;. (For embedding it here, I drastically stripped it from 160K stereo sample to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-3o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}