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  1. Xref: sparky sci.math:13344 rec.music.classical:14439
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!umab!rhaskins
  3. From: RHASKINS@UMAB.BITNET (Robert Haskins)
  4. Newsgroups: sci.math,rec.music.classical
  5. Subject: Re: P.Glass and math? [Re: famous non-mathematicians who majored in ma
  6. Message-ID: <92289.145834RHASKINS@UMAB.BITNET>
  7. Date: 15 Oct 92 19:58:34 GMT
  8. Article-I.D.: UMAB.92289.145834RHASKINS
  9. References: <1992Oct8.191230.16442@lehi3b15.CSEE.Lehigh.EDU>
  10.  <1992Oct13.202553.7542@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
  11.  <1992Oct13.223043.16366@husc3.harvard.edu>
  12. Organization: University of Maryland at Baltimore
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  15. Noam Elkies queries rec.music.classical for a verification of
  16. Glass's having majored in math as an undergraduate.  He double-
  17. majored in math and philosophy at the University of Chicago,
  18. graduating, I believe, at the age of eighteen.  But for a composer
  19. who made use of his math skills, the award, I think, should go to
  20. Babbitt, who applied mathematical principles to the analysis
  21. and creation of twelve-tone music.
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  23. Bob Haskins
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