Fall of 2023 brings me back to New York City after a very enjoyable year living in Germany, where I was concentrating on research at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (MPIM) in Bonn. MPIM is like a jazz festival for mathematicians, with an ever-changing variety of visiting researchers from around the globe sharing ideas and cutting edge new discoveries, and generating interactions among leading scientists and students in seminars, workshops and conferences, as well as spontaneous jam sessions of collaborations. Even after over 20…
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People who only know me as a musician are sometimes surprised to find out that I am also a Mathematician. The connection between Music and Mathematics is as mysterious as it is certain, and both Jazz and Mathematics are widely misunderstood art forms. For one who shares the joy of Jazz daily it may be easy to forget that many people's perception of Jazz has been "smoothed" over by market forces or blinded by a smoky-downstairs prejudice that keeps them with the "squares", cut off…
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