Peter Pesic Director of the Science Institute & Musician-in-Residence, St. John's College (Santa Fe, NM) A writer, pianist, physicist, and educator, Peter Pesic is the director of the Science Institute and Musician-in-Residence at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM. His six books published by MIT Press concern the intersections of science, music, history, and ideas, including Abel’s Proof: A Search for the Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability, Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres, and Music and the Making of Modern Science. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, the Peano Prize, and the American Publishers Association PROSE award in music and the performing arts. In reference to your suggestion to highlight some of my publications, I’d like to mention the three books included in my bio: Abel’s Proof: A Search for the Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability, Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres, and Music and the Making of Modern Science. There is also a dialogue Barry Mazur (also on the program) and I wrote, attached. Please let me know if you need further information, links, etc. My website is peterpesic.com. Participant In: The Beauty and Unity of Mathematics Saturday, December 1st, 2018 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » Proof, in the form of step by step deduction, following the rules of logical reasoning, is the ultimate test of validity in mathematics. Some proofs, however, are so long or complex, or both, that they cannot be checked for errors by human experts. In response, a small but growing community of mathematicians, collaborating with computer… read more »
The Beauty and Unity of Mathematics Saturday, December 1st, 2018 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » Proof, in the form of step by step deduction, following the rules of logical reasoning, is the ultimate test of validity in mathematics. Some proofs, however, are so long or complex, or both, that they cannot be checked for errors by human experts. In response, a small but growing community of mathematicians, collaborating with computer… read more »