Klarinet Archive - Posting 000450.txt from 1999/09

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Lecture schedue
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:23:52 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.48
> Subj: RE: [kl] Lecture schedue

> Attention: Scott Morrow,
>
> Are you going to call a meeting of the Eastern Leeson Roadblock Society?
>
> Nancy

Not this time Nancy. The last time I did I had a heart attack and
I'm a believer in caution. I wear both a belt AND suspenders.

Besides, I'm not going further east than Lancaster.

>
> > -----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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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
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