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- From: jaeger@buphy.bu.edu (Gregg Jaeger)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,rec.music.classical
- Subject: Degrees and Departments (Re: Glass and math)
- Message-ID: <98656@bu.edu>
- Date: 14 Oct 92 19:28:39 GMT
- References: <1992Oct13.202553.7542@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1992Oct13.223043.16366@husc3.harvard.edu> <1bhqnnINN77v@calvin.usc.edu>
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- In article <1bhqnnINN77v@calvin.usc.edu> alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves) writes:
- >In article <1992Oct13.223043.16366@husc3.harvard.edu> elkies@ramanujan.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies) writes:
- >>In article <1992Oct13.202553.7542@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- >>>I believe Phillip Glass (the American Composer) has a background in
- >>>mathematics. Can someone verify this?
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- >I don't think Glass ever majored in math. However, Steve Reich's undergrad
- >degree is in Philosophy.
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- >Milton Babbitt finally received his doctorate in math from Princeton -
- >several decades late. They had originally rejected his dissertation,
- >which I believe concerned serial theory in music. The Princeton pundits
- >now say that the dissertation was too far ahead of its time to have
- >been appreciated when he wrote it.
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- This is no doubt, not an isolated incident.
-
- It reminds me of the story of the positivist philosopher Rudolf
- Carnap, who wanted to do a logical analysis of Einstein's theory
- of relativity for his physics thesis; the physics department told
- him to go to the philosophy department! Now `axiomatic' approaches
- to physical theories abound.
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- Gregg
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