The Mathematical Theory of Tone Systems

I got a brochure from Marcel Dekker, and this is the title of one of
their new releases. I requested it by interlibrary loan, but if you
want to buy a copy it is priced at the usual incredibly cheap Marcel
Dekker price, in this case $165 for 302 pages, or 55 cents a page.

The book is by a Slovak mathematician named Jan Haluska, and I'm
wondering if anyone has heard of him. I haven't, but he lists his
fields of interest on his home page as "Measure and Integration,
Harmonic Analysis and Uncertainty-Based Information" so that's
probably not surprising.

Gene Ward Smith wrote:

> The book is by a Slovak mathematician named Jan Haluska, and I'm
> wondering if anyone has heard of him. I haven't, but he lists his
> fields of interest on his home page as "Measure and Integration,
> Harmonic Analysis and Uncertainty-Based Information" so that's
> probably not surprising.

Yes, he contacted me a few years ago. He's a mathematician who was publishing about tuning in mathematical journals but wasn't in contact with musicians. He sent me a paper which I can't find now, but I think it's the one that's dead-linked to from Manuel's bibliography. As it's a sonic-arts URL, perhaps Monz knows something.

I do have the envelope with his address on! I can send it privately if you like. I don't want to encourage hoards of Slovakian tuning fanatics to converge on his residence ...

Graham

--- In tuning-math@yahoogroups.com, Graham Breed <graham@m...> wrote:

> I do have the envelope with his address on! I can send it privately if
> you like. I don't want to encourage hoards of Slovakian tuning
fanatics
> to converge on his residence ...

I'll wait until I've read his book before considering that. He is
easily contactable via email.

--- In tuning-math@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith" <gwsmith@s...>
wrote:
> I got a brochure from Marcel Dekker, and this is the title of one of
> their new releases. I requested it by interlibrary loan, but if you
> want to buy a copy it is priced at the usual incredibly cheap Marcel
> Dekker price, in this case $165 for 302 pages, or 55 cents a page.
>
> The book is by a Slovak mathematician named Jan Haluska, and I'm
> wondering if anyone has heard of him. I haven't,

Monz had an article by him up, which could be gotten by clicking on
the appropriate link here:

http://sonic-arts.org/monzo/others.htm

. . . but the article appears to be offline right now. I don't
remember anything terribly interesting or novel in that article.