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. from Yale University (1973), an M.A. in English literature from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (1994). In addition, Rothstein did graduate work in mathematics at Brandeis 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", with Harold Muschamp and Martin 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]