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The great mathematician Gottfried Leibniz who is credited with being one of the inventors of calculus, once said that
> Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Implicit in this statement is the notion that all of us who appreciate music must, on at least a subconscious level, be appreciating its mathematical structure.
Mathematics of Music
ams.jhu.edu
Because infrastructural systems are mostly about nonmonetary benefits to people-their time, agency, comfort, and health-optimizing them for price, much less revenue and profit, misses these important aspects.
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
It will never cease to shock me that people would rather spend millions creating “meat" out of all sorts of products than simply stop eating meat or make meat a treat.
No Meat Required
Alicia Kennedy
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