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INDEX / 3 ARTICLES

Every published essay.

A chronological archive of source-grounded notes, from the newest publication back.

Articles

  1. 10 min read

    The Circle of Fifths Does Not Close: A Diophantine Problem in Music

    Why twelve pure fifths do not equal seven octaves, and how prime factorization turns the Pythagorean comma into a theorem.

  2. 14 min read

    What Is a Musical Interval? Ratios, Tuning, and Consonance

    Why musical intervals are frequency ratios, from vibration and ancient harmonic theory to octaves, fifths, tuning systems, and the limits of ratio-based explanations of consonance.

  3. 11 min read

    Till Death Do Us Part: Who Goes First?

    How sex differences in mortality and spousal age gaps shape the probability and duration of widowhood.