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- From: roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig)
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- Subject: Re: P.Glass and math? [Re: famous non-mathematicians who majored in math]
- Message-ID: <1992Oct14.030905.2242@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: 14 Oct 92 03:09:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct13.223043.16366@husc3.harvard.edu> elkies@ramanujan.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies) writes:
- >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?).
-
- Correct. U of Chicago, Class of 1956.
-
- (He came back for a visit in 81 or 82 and played some excerpts from
- Satyagraha at a talk he gave -- I've described it here previously.
- During an interview conducted while walking across campus, he
- asked, baffled, "Where's Stagg Field?" It seems he hadn't heard
- of its demolition -- in 1958.)
-
- >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.
-
- Shouldn't that read "Serial composer David Lewin and music theorist
- Milton Babbitt"? 8-) 8-)
-
- Used to be, composers often studied law...
-
- Roger
-