Retired Engineers Group Newsletter 153
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This newsletter contains details of the 2008 REG Annual Partners Lunch on June 4th, (registration and payment required by 23rd May - refer to newsletter) which includes a presentation:
Campanology
by Dr Matthew Sorell
Abstract:
If you look out across the Adelaide Oval, you will see the spires of St Peter’s Cathedral, home to the heaviest octave of change-ringing bells outside of the British Isles. The music is unique to England and its colonies, based on continuous cycling of permutations following similar rules to the Rubik’s Cube, alphabetical sorting and cryptography. Change-ringing, or Anglo-Campanology, has its roots in the 11th Century and its mathematical formulation was documented centuries before pure mathematicians came up with their own version, known as Combinatorial Group Theory.
This talk will introduce you to the change-ringing bells of Adelaide, and provide you with an insight into the sport, music, mathematics and engineering of this obsessive hobby.