
“Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.”
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A Mathematician's Apology (1941)
“Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.”
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Interview at S'pore Chess News, 23 August 2010 http://www.singaporechessnews.com/interview_ashot_nadanian.html
His comment to his wife On his daily prayers he would sings devotional songs out of tune and metre. Quoted in page=104
Source: A Mathematical Theory of Systems Engineering (1967), p. 3.
Source: 19th century, Popular Scientific Lectures [McCormack] (Chicago, 1898), p. 197; On mathematics and counting.