Course: FDMATH108 Teacher: Kasey Halling Mathematics and Music I am a musician that`s the reason I picked this theme. It was very interesting to learn how mathematics and music are related in a deeply way, because I`ve already knew it a little bit. But there are some things very important I found in the readings. First, I found the vibrations of an object makes sound, these vibrations are waves and produce sound. Sound has pitch and frequency, basically if we play with the pitch and frequency we can listen the different musician notes or melodies we know or we listen. The frequency can be measure in Hertz or cycles per second, when for example a string is moving up and down this is the frequency. I also found that the Greeks invented the 7 notes we know as (C-D- E-F-G-A-B) which is the diatonic scale, and after the musician Bach adopted the 12-tone scale in which we can find the sharps and flat notes, which are the black keys on the piano. And this part I really find interesting because of the multiplicative factor (f) because every note of this scale is separated by a half-step. And this so perfect because doubling the frequency we have an octave witch is the same note or frequency but higher. Also I found we can calculate the frequency of every note with this factor: f= twelfth root of two. But even with this factor is difficult to tune instruments in a perfect way because the values of the frequencies are approximated. Also with music, we can us the exponential growth to find frequencies or notes. To create the perfect sound is required numbers, because when a note is playing in a violin or in another instrument, the string did not sound alone, we have the entire violin which works like an amplifier, and sum of all this waves gives the sound of a violin, guitar, piano, etc. There are also other parts for this frequencies can be music, we have the rhythm, tempo, and accent, those little things make the music so different in every song or melody we`ve heard. For example, Mozart in the commentaries of Mike May who studied the sonatas of Mozart to know if he used mathematics to composed his music. There can be many factors, but we have to remember that music includes some principal things, like the tempo, and also the distribution of the notes through the entire piece, those notes must be in the time the composer have stablished and also this is sort of math to achieve it. I learned also about the Golden Ration and Fibonacci Numbers. The golden ratio is interesting because you can divide a song not necessarily in the middle, but in some section you can rephrase the other part with the exact measurement. And about the Fibonacci Numbers in the diatonic scale was very interesting found it, because you realize this scale it`s perfect in some way. To conclude, I always thinking music is perfect, when you find the exact time, frequency, tempo, etc., you can create a beautiful melody, learn these things give me a wide vision about the importance of mathematics, because math is exact, and music requires to be exact too.