As math wizard Manjul Bhargava points out there is an organic link between music and maths. Is it time schools rethink their curriculum? When musician Taufiq Qureshi was a little boy, he was perenially paranoid about his school maths until, one day , his father, the tabla master Alla Rakha said, "Why are you so fearful? We do maths all the time in our music.We are adding, subtracting, multiplying..." And he proceeded to show his son, through a series of tabla compositions, how maths was actually their second language - after music. There is an organic connection between maths and music - contrary to the perception that one is a cold rational subject and the other a soft emotional one. Just as music is more than a collection of notes, mathematics is more than numbers. Both are about structure, pattern, abstractions and about connecting with the nature - the rhythmic movement of the tides, of our breath, or that there being exactly the same number of petals in daisies sprinkled across a field, which also corresponds to the Fibonacci numbers in mathematics. This is why Manjul Bhargava, the Princeton-base mathematician, says he keeps a photo graph of a field of daisies in his office.
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Bhargava, who just won the world' most prestigious maths prize, the Field Medal, is a concert-level tabla playe trained by Zakir Hussain. In his inter views, he talks about the connection between maths, music and poetry which, if taught well, could produce a entirely different generation of creativ thinkers.
"Why are people who are into exac sciences like math and physics, also int music?" asks Suvarnalata Rao, a musi cologist with a background in physics "Because both require abstract thinkin -to be able to fathom that abstractio and its organization. That's why childre who trained in music will be able to or ganize thoughts much more logically."
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