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Two Renaissances · Book V · KW Norton

Gravity's Mathematical Angels

A Tribunal for the Second Renaissance

We simply are what we do, what we think and believe, and the action we take. Gravity's mathematical angels are metaphors that take on mathematical and musical form: guides through music, the listening chamber, number, and the Renaissance now in progress.

Free reading edition. Chapters 2, 3 and 6 and the epigraph are still in formation and will appear here when written.

Front Matter

  1. The Audition

    The Audition

Part I — Music

  1. Chapter 1

    The Harmonic Series as Prayer

  2. Chapter 4

    Confluence

Part II — The Acoustic Fossil (Listening Chamber)

  1. Listening Chamber

    The Drone as Acoustic Fossil

  2. Listening Chamber

    Music as Audible Proof — We Are Verbs, Not Nouns

  3. Listening Chamber

    Relationship as Substrate

Part III — Number

  1. Chapter 5

    Pythagoras at the Threshold

  2. Chapter 7

    Riemann's Open Question

    The Micro-Ring Bridge

  3. Chapter 8

    Mathematical Exoskeletons, Breathing

Part IV — The Renaissance In Progress

  1. Chapter 9

    The Second Renaissance, Auditioned

  2. Chapter 10

    Music, Number, and the Architecture of Light

  3. Chapter 11

    The Participatory Imperative

Back Matter

  1. Coda

    Coda — Gravity's Mathematical Angels