{"id":1594,"date":"2015-03-10T04:07:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T04:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2015-03-10T05:21:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T05:21:56","slug":"mathematics-tabla-and-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/mathematics-tabla-and-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics, Tabla and the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring break is here and I finally have ample time to practice my <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tabla\">tabla<\/a>. In the absence of a regular schedule and a teacher, I rely on online videos to improve my skills. Following my YouTube recommendations, I came across this talk given by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manjul_Bhargava\">Manjul Bhargava<\/a> to a group of school children in Bangalore. Not many of you may know that Dr. Bhargava is not only the 2014 Fields Medal winner, but he is also an accomplished tabla player who has studied under one of the greatest tabla player of our times &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zakir_Hussain_%28musician%29\"> Zakir Hussain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I should post this on my blog for it is certainly the kind of talk that I would have cherished as a kid attending it. Also, I really liked the way he simplified and explained a reasonably difficult concept to his audience. I am sure it would have made a lot of minds curious about the topic:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/siFBqH-LaQQ\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you found this interesting, you can find a nice tutorial on it with the title <a href=\"http:\/\/people.sju.edu\/~rhall\/horizons.pdf\">Mathematics for Poets and Drummers<\/a> by Dr. Rachel Hall (also has <a href=\"http:\/\/people.sju.edu\/~rhall\/proposal.pdf\">an extended version<\/a> that I haven&#8217;t been through yet). Also if this talk inspired you to pick up tabla, I found this very useful series of videos on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/tejsingh1961\/videos\">YouTube channel by Tej Singh<\/a> for beginning and intermediate tabla players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring break is here and I finally have ample time to practice my tabla. In the absence of a regular schedule and a teacher, I rely on online videos to improve my skills. Following my YouTube recommendations, I came across this talk given by Manjul Bhargava to a group of school children in Bangalore. Not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/mathematics-tabla-and-the-arts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mathematics, Tabla and the Arts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46eol-pI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}