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Do mathematicians and physicists make better musicians and artists?

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  • Duration: 5 mins
  • Publication date: 31 Jan 2022
  • Part of series The IET Bookshelf

Abstract

Mathematicians and physicists have excellent pattern recognition and can see the overlap in patterns across different things. Femi suggests that most people can learn to recognise these patterns too. The Upper World is a metaphor for 4-dimentional space time and was written to give meaning and relevance to maths.

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    Femi Fadugba

    Femi Fadugba has a Master's degree from Oxford University, where he published in Quantum Physics and subsequently studied as a Thouron Scholar at University of Pennsylvania. Femi has worked as a science tutor as well as in solar energy and consulting. He currently lives between Peckham, London, and Baltimore, USA. The Upper World is his first book.
  • Femi Fadugba

    Femi Fadugba

    Femi Fadugba has a Master's degree from Oxford University, where he published in Quantum Physics and subsequently studied as a Thouron Scholar at University of Pennsylvania. Femi has worked as a science tutor as well as in solar energy and consulting. He currently lives between Peckham, London, and Baltimore, USA. The Upper World is his first book.
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