Mapping Für Elise to a Markov chain: music as audible mathematics
solyarisoftware · x · 2026-10-11
A post inspired by rereading Gödel, Escher, Bach argues that music is the art form closest to mathematical beauty — repetition, variation and structure in melody are essentially audible expressions of mathematical patterns.
The shared video illustrates the point by mapping Beethoven's Für Elise onto a graph-theoretic Markov chain of probabilities, revealing the probabilistic structure behind melody generation.
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