Indian classical music: Models and Algorithms
Dinesh S Thakur is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Rochester. He obtained his BSc degree in mathematics from University of Bombay 1981, and PhD in mathematics from Harvard University in 1987.
He spent three and half years at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and three years at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. He spent twenty years at University of Arizona and was one of the founders of the Arizona Winter School, NSF funded activity now running in its 28th year. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He has been an editor for three international number theory journals. He is involved in various outreach activities in India and is an adjunct (honorary) professor at Bhaskaracharya Pratishthan, India. He has written a research monograph `Function Field Arithmetic'.
For more details please visit his home page at https://people.math.rochester.edu/faculty/dthakur2/
Indian classical music is a highly developed art. In developing, recording and explaining its ideas, a very scientific approach was taken. Even then, since the words and practices change over the time, a lot of confusion and inconsistencies arose in the relevant literature. I will discuss my understanding of the underlying (elementary) mathematics.
