After a busy spring focused on helping students learn Calculus, summer 2015 found me returning to the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (MPIM) in Bonn, Germany for another research visit. Besides proving theorems and otherwise exploring the mathematical landscape, this visit also included playing duets with talented teenage clarinetist Nikita Manin (on his way to the Stanford Jazz Workshop), and with cellist and master mathematician Matthias Kreck (in preparation for a special presentation of mathematics and music in New York next fall — details coming…
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