John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music in Jazz, Math, Music | April 12th, 2017 158 Comments Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” wh
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