Presentation: why has been created this website
From a graduate thesis to a website
Hello there, thanks for your visit, This work was done for the glory of
God and His son Jesus Christ. The website has been created with the objective of publish in the world wide web the Physics graduate thesis I've got in the University of Rome, Italy, in 2005 at the Mathematics, Physics and Natural Science faculty; the thesis subject regards a physical model of the grand piano mechanism. Persuaded by my professors and inspired by the discussions with my companions of faculty I decided to create this site to interchange ideas also in a mediatic context about all thesis related matters, a SQL database is under construction for discussions and will be working soon. For the development of the site academic original contributions are encouraged; granted this is an independent non-profit independent academic activity, for the maintenance of web hosting economic donations are well accepted (contact me).
It has been attempted to build up all pages the most easy to read as
possible and render the surfing comfortable in a rather circular
architecture. I apologize I'm not english native speaker though as has been
noticed me by some eyed poets, the choice to translate the original work
is purely practical. The whole thesis document is available in pdf format in the download window.
As far as academic contents concerns, the fields of study of piano playing as a physical phenomena embraces many areas of pure and applied mathematics, p.e. the flux of the point of touch is focused on the study on symmetric cones. This is a subject of growing importance in number theory and multivariate analysis, it embraces Jordan algebra, spherical polynomials, multivariate hypergeometric functions, holomorphic functions on bounded symmetric domains of tube type, and invariant differential operators. Maintaining this conceptual scheme in mind the thesis I defended begins considering the inertial and dynamic properties of the piano Key in the dynamic threshold, therefore the model is developed with the characterization, piece for piece, of all the piano action structure, and also assuming the closing of the loop with the phenomena attributed or connected to aural aspects as well. The main contribution has been to model of the magnitudes that describe the acoustic stiffness of the piano action structure, considering the flow as the fundamental asset of the theory. Presently I'm interested to contact students and theoreticians in pure mathematics, non-commutative harmonic analysis, Jordan algebras, and multivariate statistics; for further developing of related aspects.
Finally I want to mention that the philosophy in developing both, thesis and web site, has been that to observe intellectual honesty all the time, mentioning wherever I had taken advantage of the work of others full reference. I would suggest to adopt such a philosophy and ethics behaviour to visitors of this site, please feel free to copy and paste literacy here exposed if you need it for legal purposes, remembering to quote my nickname (Pancho) or true name if you use the images I have created and digitized with much love and patience during many working hours in the PC. As distribution of the thesis is achieved under GNU GPL © license agreement, last but not least, the LaTeX source code for the thesis final document generation is deposited on the central archive at the Physics department of "La Sapienza" university in Rome, Italy (Apache_Red_Hat_server), and can be requested to LAN administrator there for further editing. Hope you will find science entertainment here, enjoy your visit, come back soon.
Faithfully yours.
Cesar Francisco Lopez Pineda
“ Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. I have always kept one end in view, namely, to conduct a well-regulated music to the honour of God. There’s nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself ... ” Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
