Showing posts with label mathematics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mathematics. Show all posts

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Mathematicians and musicians

Harvard mathematics professor Noam Elkies, who's been mentioned on this blog a few times, was featured in Sunday's New York Times column.  Dylan Loeb McClain returns to the subject in this blog post.

Prodigies are found in three fields: math, music, and chess.  What's the link?