Delivering the Groceries at 138 Beats per Minute 1

There is an important difference between [music and mathematics]. This difference arises from the fact that musical creation is [for] performance [and] must somehow take into account the ‘other’ (in the form of the listener) because the creative input is intended to be communicated to the listener. In contrast, the mathematician’s creative activity is usually solitary … Typically, the mathematician does not need to contend with communication simultaneously with the creative phase. ²