Scott Rickard: The Beautiful Math Behind the World’s Ugliest Music

In this surprisingly entertaining math talk, Scott Rickard shares the math behind musical beauty and its opposite.

To create the worst possible piece of music free of repetition, Scott Rickard turned to the Costas Array, a mathematical idea he learned in college. In this surprisingly interesting discussion, he explains the mathematics that underpins musical beauty and its polar opposite.

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