MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

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Love Counts (2005)
Michael Hastings (libretto) / Michael Nyman (score)
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This opera tells the tale of the surprising friendship between a boxer whose career and life are in decline and a mathematics professor who uses arithmetic as a tool to help him out. It premiered in March 2005 at Germany's Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe.

Thanks to Peter Freyd for pointing it out to me.

More information about this work can be found at www.staatstheater.karlsruhe.de.
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Categories:
Genre
MotifFemale Mathematicians, Music,
TopicAlgebra/Arithmetic/Number Theory,
MediumPlays,

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