Re: MD PhD Viva Questions (& Answers!)

From: Richard Loggins (brloggins@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Sep 06 2004 - 19:46:49 BST

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    Hi Anthony,
    Great answers from both you and Robert Pirsig. Maybe
    they should give Mr. Pirsig an honorary degree fro
    doing such a great job :) I have a couple of
    confusions though about the Shonenburg Concert
    question and answer. If Prisig means that musical
    harmony is not the same as MoQ harmony, does this mean
    the Schoneberg Concert cannot fit into this paradigm,
    or is the question not really answered? Also, do you
    agree that mathematical elegance cannot be defined by
    any static pattern? Can we not give reasons why some
    mathematics is more elegant than others? I really
    don't know enough math to say,but if thats true its
    very interesting.
    Rich

    > b. How can a Schonenberg Concert which is
    > purposively disharmonic fit into
    > this paradigm?
    >
    > Pirsig: Musical harmony is composed of notes that
    > have a fixed mathematical
    > relation to one another. The harmony Poincaré
    > referred to is mathematical
    > elegance that is not defined by any static pattern.
    > When the MOQ refers to
    > harmony it uses it in Poincaré’s sense.

                    
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