Public Lectures
The program of the conference contemplates two Public Lectures directed to a general attendance, which will take place in the Conference venue: Villa Farnesina, via della Lungara 230, Roma. Mouse over the pictures to read short biographies.
Harvard University, mathematician, composer and pianist
Canonical Forms:
A Mathematician's View of
Musical Canons
Tuesday, July 9, 2013 - 19:00
Collège de France and IHES, winner of the Fields Medal in 1982
The Music
of
Shapes
Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 19:00
Since the discovery, by the Pitaghorean School, that the tones of the musical scale are expressed by simple fractional numbers, the relationship between Mathematics and Music has been
very tight, and a source of inspiration both for mathematicians and for musicians. It is sufficient to think of the Well-Tempered Clavier or the canons by Bach, to the musical treaty
by Giuseppe Tartini, to the invention of Harmonic Analysis by Joseph Fourier, up to the present days with musicians whose mathematical inspiration is know and evident like
Pierre Boulez or Philip Glass. The two public lectures will explore the history of this relation on the light of mathematical disciplines which are nowadays the object of frontier research,
such as Number Theory and Noncommutative Geometry.
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