2019 Festival: Math, Music, History: 300 Years in 30 Minutes (3:15pm showing)

Would you cook dinner from a 300-year-old recipe book? Make clothes from a 300-year-old pattern? Undergo treatment from a 300-year-old medical manuscript? Probably not. But what about playing a 300-year-old piece of music? Or studying a 300-year-old mathematical idea? Math and music seem to age better than some other aspects of human culture. Come take a tour of some highlights over the past few hundred years, with mathematician and violinist Dr. Lillian Pierce.

This lecture is generously supported by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) (opens new window).

This presentation repeats the session taking place from 11:30am – 12:15pm.