- Edward Rothstein
Edward Rothstein is a music critic and composer who supports the idea that music may be linked in a distant way to physical and mathematical ideas such as
string theory . One of his books that explores this notion is "Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics".Rothstein has worked as a music critic for "
The New Republic " and as the chief music critic for "The New York Times ". He is currently the cultural critic-at-large for the "Times".He holds a
B.A. fromYale University (1973), an M.A. in English literature fromColumbia University , and aPh.D. from theCommittee on Social Thought at theUniversity of Chicago (1994). In addition, Rothstein did graduate work in mathematics atBrandeis University .Writings
* "Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics" (Times Books, 1995)
* "Visions of Utopia: New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities", withHarold Muschamp andMartin M. Marty (Oxford University Press, 2003).External links
* [http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0402/features/index-rothstein.shtml University of Chicago profile]
* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/edward_rothstein/index.html Archive of Rothstein's "New York Times" articles]
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