Science and Music
🎶🎼🎸Music and Science: It can’t be a mere coincidence that some of the greatest minds in Science (even Data Science) have an inclination for learning and composing music. Maybe it’s inherently connected to creativity and finding patterns.
Albert Einstein used to play violin and he learnt it all by himself. He often indicated that if he hadn’t worked as a scientist, he would have become a musician. Einstein’s scientific ideas were often firstly created in the shape of images and intuitions, and later converted into mathematics, logic and words. Music helped Einstein in this thought process and helped convert the images to logic.
Physics Laureate Werner Heisenberg was also highly interested in music and occasionally played together with Albert Einstein. From an early age, Heisenberg seemed destined to become a musician and concert pianist. It is said that he started reading sheet music at the age of four. However, as he grew older, his passion for science outgrew his love for music and he decided to become a scientist instead. Despite this, music remained a lifelong passion of his.
Fellow Physics Laureate Max Planck was similarly a very gifted physicist and musician. Planck sang as well as played the piano and organ. Einstein and Planck supposedly used to play together, finding not only a shared love for science but also music
Similarly, there are lots of scientific discoveries/inventions made by musicians.
Dexter Holland, lead singer of the band ‘The Offspring’ has a PhD in molecular biology and made a critical discovery about HIV RNA genome sequencing.
If we were to extend this to Data Science, Yann LeCun the father of CNN (Convolutional Neural Networks) used to play in a Jazz band
Joshua Starmer PhD along with his amazingly simple explanations on Statistics (now even ML/DL) on his channel ‘statquest’ also publishes his self composed songs
Lex Fridman youtube channel showcases him playing lead guitar solos
P.S : I am not posting this because even I play couple of instruments and compose music 😇 but for the sheer correlation between science, music and creativity ✌️
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