music

It's a commonplace observation that musicians are often good at math and mathemeticians are often good at music. I don't know that anybody has nailed down why this is. It seems to lucky me that I get better at music when I am teaching trig. Not calculus, not computer science, not statistics, but trig. What's up with that?

Now I have a notion that the combination of countability and continuity in trig is somehow productive. If you exercise, you burn more calories even while you're sleeping, right? (Right?) Maybe when I'm doing trig, I'm just more musical the whole semester long. Walkin' in rhyyy-thm...

A few years ago I took a class in juggling. No deep thoughts on why it appealed to me, until yesterday. After my sister sent me this link, I got my trig-and-music idea.