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Old 2nd Feb 2015, 21:21
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Oh, and How to Hotwire Vehicles.
One is intrigued...

At least with music you have some understanding of pattern and symmetry.
I'm told that there are only three types of child prodigy; music, maths and chess.

I've banged on for years at heads who see music provision as just a tick in the box that music and maths are closely interrelated, in a very real physical sense due to the enhancement of spatial-temporal reasoning, often known as the 'Mozart' effect.

I can offer myself as evidence. My first year at Grammar I came bottom of the class in maths (not unexpected). I took up the violin and guitar in that year and was an avid student. In my second year I came top in maths. I have been a musician and have loved maths ever since, and still at my age enjoy picking up a piece of paper and calculating an orbital mechanics problem just for fun. But then look at any Bach fugue and it's almost pure maths written in notation. Coincidence?
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