Three great tastes that taste great together. But seriously: Literature is replete with math (and music), and here’s a professor who can talk about how Melville played with math in Moby Dick – and also disprove “an 18th-century Italian musical board game that promised ‘un infinito numero di minuette trio.’ The object of the game: Players compose a 16-bar minuet by rolling a die and then choosing, bar by bar, which of six musical options, composed by Haydn, should come next.” – The New York Times