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Eugenia Cheng, a mathematician who also is a concert pianist, describes how a mathematical breakthrough enabled Johann Sebastian Bach to write “The Well-Tempered Clavier” (1722). Cheng is a visiting senior lecturer in mathematics at the University of Chicago.
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