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- From: elkies@ramanujan.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,rec.music.classical
- Subject: P.Glass and math? [Re: famous non-mathematicians who majored in math]
- Message-ID: <1992Oct13.223043.16366@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 14 Oct 92 02:30:42 GMT
- Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Oct13.223043.16366
- References: <1992Oct8.191230.16442@lehi3b15.CSEE.Lehigh.EDU> <1992Oct13.202553.7542@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Oct13.202553.7542@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- lawton%ecfa@jesnic.jsc.nasa.gov (Eric G. Lawton) writes:
- >In article <1992Oct8.191230.16442@lehi3b15.CSEE.Lehigh.EDU>
- >buyskes@lafcol.lafayette.edu (Steve Buyske) writes:
- >> So the question is, do you know of any well-known people who
- >> majored in math but aren't known as mathematicians?
- >
- >I believe Phillip Glass (the American Composer) has a background in
- >mathematics. Can someone verify this?
-
- I can't (nor refute it), so I'm cross-posting to rec.music.classical
- which as it happens has an ongoing Glass thread (fiber optics?).
-
- Meanwhile I note that music theorist David Lewin and serial composer
- Milton Babbitt got their undergraduate degrees in mathematics, and
- math figures prominently in their work.
-
- Oh, and Tom Lehrer does not have a Ph.D. in mathematics, though he was
- a math graduate student at Harvard for one year.
-
- --Noam D. Elkies (elkies@zariski.harvard.edu)
- Dept. of Mathematics, Harvard University
-