Music and Mathematics: The Dyson Legacy

Music and Mathematics: The Dyson Legacy January 5, 2009

I was struck yesterday to discover that a composer whose music I enjoy, George Dyson, was the father of physicist Freeman Dyson, whose writings on science and religion I value.

I can’t speak for the Dysons, but for me personally, music is a better vaccine against reductionism than anything else I know of.

(If you’re interested in how the Dyson family legacy continues, by the way, FreemanDyson’s son George is a historian of technology).


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