On and On: Infinity in Song
Lawrence M. Lesser

Proceedings of Bridges 2024: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 39–44
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Abstract

The author, an award-winning songwriter, explores a diversity of references to infinity in the music and lyrics of mathematical and non-mathematical songs. Educational connections to mathematics content include infinite series, limits, recursion, perspective, irrational numbers, transfinite numbers, fractals, and asymptotic behavior of graphs.

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