M4TEMOZIOA 2015: Matematikaren Hitzordua
Cita con las Matemáticas – Sound, Shape, and Harmony
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, European Research Council & IHÉS, France
Bizkaia Aretoa | Paraninfo UPV / EHU, Avenida Abandoibarra 3, Bilbao, Bilbao
26 February 2015 at 19:00
Jean Pierre Bourguignon matematikariak Sound, Shape and Hamrony izeneko hitzaldia eskeini zuen M4temozioa 2015 ekimenaren baitan, matematika, teknologia eta berrikuntzaren topaketa irekian.
Sound, Shape, and Harmony
The historical development of the mathematical understanding of musical harmony is the subject of the lecture.
The analysis of stringed instruments lies at the root of the Western theory of music, while in Chinese music stone chimes have played a special role. A vibrating string is essentially one-dimensional, while the harmony of stone chimes depends on their two-dimensional geometries, whose analysis requires more sophisticated mathematics.
More recently, the vibration of three- and even higher-dimensional objects have been investigated and embodied in some instruments.
Jean-Pierre BOURGUIGNON
President of the ERC-European Research Council
CNRS-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
IHÉS-Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France
He spent his whole career as a fellow of the CNRS-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France. He held a Professor position at École Polytechnique,1986-2012, was President of the Société Mathématique de France,1990-92 and President of the European Mathematical Society from 1995 to 1998. He is a former member of the Board of the EuroScience organisation, 2002-2006, and served on ESOF-EuroScience Open Forum committees since 2004. He received the Prix Paul Langevin in 1987 and the Prix du Rayonnement Français in Mathematical Sciences and Physics from the Académie des Sciences de Paris in 1997. He is a foreign member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences and was elected honorary member of the London Mathematical Society, 2005. He has also been the Secretary of the mathematics section of the Academia Europaea. He was made Doctor Honoris Causa of Keio University, Japan, 2008 and of Nankai University, China,2011.
BCAM-Basque Center of Applied Mathematics, en colaboración con la Cátedra de Cultura Científica de la Universidad del País Vasco y DeustoTech, Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de Deusto, se sienten honrados de haber contado con Jean-Pierre BOURGUIGNON como el orador de la charla pública M4TEMOZIOA Matematikaren Hitzordua / Cita con las Matemáticas 2015 que se celebra anualmente con el objetivo de difundir la importancia y futuro desafiante de la matemática contemporánea. Esta empresa conjunta tiene como objetivo subrayar la importancia de las matemáticas como tal, sino también como clave del desarrollo tecnológico y de la sociedad moderna y sostenible.
Enrique ZUAZUA, Distinguished Ikerbasque Professor at BCAM coordina esta actividad con Juan Ignacio PEREZ, Director de la Cátedra de Cultura Científica de la Universidad del País Vasco y Pablo GARCÍA BRINGAS, Director de DeustoTech, Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de Deusto.