Is shape just geometric similarity? Surely not; on the other hand, the main topological type of equivalence, i.e., homeomorphism, is much too far from the human idea of "having the same shape". Still, this does not mean that we have to avoi

April 3, 2015 54 min

Is it possible to represent the horizontal motions of the melodic strands of a contrapuntal composition, or the main ideas of a jazz standard as mathematical entities? In this work, we suggest a collection of novel models for the representa

December 10, 2015 49 min