Klarinet Archive - Posting 000449.txt from 1999/09

From: "Buckman, Nancy" <nebuckman@-----.us>
Subj: RE: [kl] Lecture schedue
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:19:15 -0400

Attention: Scott Morrow,

Are you going to call a meeting of the Eastern Leeson Roadblock Society?

Nancy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 10:05 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Lecture schedue
>
> College faculty on the KLARINET list. My wife and I are driving
> across the U.S. late March and early April, 2000, with 6 lectures
> to give, the last on Apr. 15 in Lancaster, PA at the annual
> meeting of the American Military Historical Society. The first
> 5 lectures are to be in Arizona, Texas, Illinois, Indiana, and
> Ohio, with all 5 on the same topic: Mozart and Mathematics. A
> summary of the talk and its purpose is given below.
>
> I had scheduled 6 repetitions of the Mozart/Mathematicas talk
> but scheduling difficulties have caused one college to back out.
> That fees up one day between Texas and Illinois somewhere around
> April 6 or 7 but not later or earlier.
>
> If the topic and its contents are of interest to you as a
> colloqium for BOTH the mathematics and the music departemtns,
> contact me privately
>
>
> ==============================================================
>
>
> The proposed colloquium, "Mozart and Mathematics" is a repetition
> of a lecture given at the International Conference on the
> Enlightenment held at the University of Dublin in Ireland in July,
> 1999. The subject matter is directed both to those with
> mathematical training and those with an interest in the composer
> Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
>
> It poses the hypothesis that Mozart had a very real but completely
> unknown and undeveloped mathematical intellect. Considering the
> fact that he never had a single day of schooling in his life and
> that his mathematical training, provided solely by his father, was
> limited only to the basic elements of arithmetic, it is remarkable
> that sketches in his hand show him playing, for his own personal
> amusement, in one of the most abstract of all mathematical
> disciplines, number theory. While the work is of little
> mathematical importance, what is remarkable is that, without any
> training whatsoever, this extraordinary musical genius, thought by
> some to be the most creative musician ever born, occupied and
> amused himself in the same discipline that has been at the center
> of creative mathematical thought for millenia.
>
> It gives rise to the very old question about a theoretical
> relationship between the thought processes of mathematics and those
> of music.
>
> The speaker Daniel N. Leeson. Though now retired from an active
> business career, Leeson holds degrees in mathematics, was a key
> speaker for the Association of Computing Machinery for many years,
> author of one of the earliest texts on computer programming, a
> performing symphonic musician who played with at least a dozen
> professional symphony orchestras, is still one of the world's
> leading Mozart scholars, and an editor of the 220 volume complete
> edition of the works of Mozart, the Neue Mozart Ausgabe. A report
> on this subject of Mozart and Mathematics will appear in the Mozart
> Jahrbuch, 1998/99 edition, as published by the Salzburg Mozarteum
> in conjunction with the German publishing firm of Baerenreiter,
> Kassel.
>
> This lecture was first presented to the combined mathematics and
> music departements of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in March,
> 1999 and will be presented to the Council of College Mathematics
> Teachers in Las Vegas in March, 2000.
>
> =======================================
> Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> leeson@-----.edu
> =======================================
>
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