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Dynamical systems, celestial mechanics, and music: Pythagoras revisited
Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Diego L. González, Oreste Piro
Gioseffo Zarlino reintroduced the Pythagorean paradigm into Renaissance musical theory. In a similar fashion, Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, and Isaac Newto…
Non-Power Positional Number Representation Systems, Bijective Numeration, and the Mesoamerican Discovery of Zero
Berenice Rojo-Garibaldi, Costanza Rangoni, Diego L. González +1
Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica was a fertile crescent for the development of number systems. A form of vigesimal system seems to have been present from the first Olmec civilization onwa…
Möbius strips before Möbius: Topological hints in ancient representations
Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Diego L. González
August Möbius discovered his eponymous strip --- also found almost contemporaneously by Johann Listing --- in 1858, so a pre-1858 Möbius band would be an interesting object. It tur…