Music, Mathematics, and Microcomputers Building upon a Classical Tradition

In early Western medieval education, music was taughtas one of the quadrivium, which comprised four of the sevenliberal arts, in turn built upon an earlier Western classicaltradition that produced the trivium. We re-examine music’s closerelationship with the other elements of the quadrivium, andfurther establish links with elements of modern computingtheory

Quadrivium (Exhibition Catalogue)

Quadrivium is Latin for the fourways or the place where the four roads meet. It\u27s use here describes Knoxville and the School of Art as the place where artistic roads and artists have met. Quadrivium features the work of the four most recent additions to the faculty of the School of Art: Joshua Bienko, Evan Meaney, Althea Murphy-Price, and Karla Wozniak

From the Quadrivium to Modern Science

The ultimate objective of this work is to demonstrate that it is possible to reconsider the emergence of modern science as a process of disintegration of the quadrivium, which was considered a stable scheme for the organization of knowledge. The argument considers the quadrivium according to the Boethian systematization that was used to organize the curricula of the late medieval universities. This argument follows the development of each of its disciplines and illustrates the practical turn they underwent. The period between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries is explored, and shows that during this period, the quadrivium potentially included a fifth autonomous discipline, calendric. The article concludes by describing epistemological considerations to the mechanisms of disintegration of knowledge structures

Notes: Definition and Explanation of Trivium and Quadrivium

Class notes defining Trivium (Language Arts) and Quadrivium (The Sciences)

Initial teacher education in the university ‘My little ship, how ill-laden you are’

Initial teacher education programmes in universities must meet the needs of varying constituencies. Politicians, school leaders and academics, for example, understandably seek to influence how these programmes should look. Given the importance of well-qualified teachers for the building of effective schools, it is right that a range of stakeholders should have their say. The Donaldson Report on teacher education in Scotland (2011) has much to say regarding the academic content of teacher education programmes. It offers food for thought for those wedded to the ‘craft’ model of teacher education. Academic rigour and breadth of experience cannot be seen as inimical to the need to ensure that newly qualified teachers are, indeed, ready to teach. The rediscovery of liberal approaches to education studies and the value of the liberal arts can be key components of a reimagined teacher education process

The Riemann Hypothesis Proof And The Quadrivium Theory

The purpose of this article is to release an elegant proof of the Riemann Hypothesis via the Quadrivium Theory

Academic Malaise: Bring Back the Groves of Academe

The state of university governance and academic freedom are discussed. Several related topics are also considered: tuition inflation; term versus tenure-track faculty; massive open online courses; and relative standing of higher education in the United States

Mathematics, core of the past and hope of the future

Mathematics has always been a core part of western education, from the medieval quadrivium to the large amount of arithmetic and algebra still compulsory in high schools. It is an essential part. Its commitment to exactitude and to rigid demonstration balances humanist subjects devoted to appreciation and rhetoric as well as giving the lie to postmodernist insinuations that all “truths” are subject to political negotiation. In recent decades, the character of mathematics has changed – or rather broadened: it has become the enabling science behind the complexity of contemporary knowledge, from gene interpretation to bank risk. Mathematical understanding is all the more necessary for future jobs, as well as remaining, as ever, a prophylactic against the more corrosive philosophical views emanating from the humanities