CREATIVITY, CHANCE, MATHEMATICS AND ART (SC 211)
SC 211 CREATIVITY, CHANCE, MATHEMATICS AND ART
The Duchamp/Poincaré Connection
The late nineteenth and early twentieth century was a vibrant period of transformation in science, technology, art, literature and music: Einstein's theory of special relativity, quantum mechanics; the Wright Brothers' powered flight; Edison's phonograph and motion pictures; the art of Picasso and Kandinsky; the novels of Proust and Joyce; the poetry of Yeats and Rilke; and the music of Schoenberg and Stravinsky.
These discoveries and creations did not appear from a void. The connections, the reasons for them, and the pathways of creativity will be the subject of this presentation. In particular, it will focus on the connection between Henri Poincaré, a great theoretical physicist and mathematician, and Marcel Duchamp, the surrealist/Dadaist painter/sculptor who transformed the idea of what constitutes art.
Presenter/Developer: Jerry Florman is a registered pharmacist and member of the OLLI Science Committee. He has presented classes to OLLI on such diverse topics as medication literacy, orchid culture, the deaths of Mozart, Napoleon, and Washington, the physics of flight and the humanistic side of the Nobel Prize.
Date/Time: Monday, December 14
10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon
Location: Woodbridge Village Center
Facilitators: Judy and Jerry Florman 714-544-1479
jflorman@cox.net
| When: | Dec 14, 09 to Dec 14, 09; 1 meetings |
| Where: | Woodbridge Village Center |
Schedule
| Date | Day | Start Time | End Time | Building |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/14/2009 | Monday | 10:00AM | 12:00PM | Woodbridge Village Center |
