Alan Shepherd

Born in the UK in 1953, Alan Shepherd studied Electrical Engineering and Electronics at Brunel University. He has lived in Germany since 1976 and spent his career in programming real-time and industrial process control computer systems and in infrastructure management and IT governance (in which connection he contributed a chapter to the German book "Praxiswissen COBIT"). In retirement he has turned to one of his other interests, the music of J.S. Bach, and has applied his professional knowledge to the much disputed area of numbers and numerolgy in music, resulting in the book "Let's Calculate Bach, Applying Information Theory and Statistics to Numbers in Music" with a computer program for anlaysing proportional relationships, as revealed by Ruth Tatlow (https://www.amazon.com/author/ruth_tatlow) in "Bach's Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance".