Edward Rothstein

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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.

[edit] 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).

[edit] External links

• University of Chicago profile
• Archive of Rothstein's New York Times articles