Bryn Reinstadler on Teaching Change-Ringing at MIT
Bryn Reinstadler is a graduate of Williams College, a graduate student in machine learning and artificial intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is the voice (and aesthetic sensibility) of Ringing Room.
Bryn, with Leland Kusmer, taught MIT's recent course "English Change-Ringing: A Mathematical-Musical Team Sport." (Their reading list for this project is at the end of these notes.)
If you'd like a short introduction to machine learning, Bryn recommends this two-minute YouTube video.
Mostly, though, we talk about permutations, Cayley graphs, and touring permutation groups. You know: ringing.
For more discussion of the Chandler's 23-band, see the end of episode 001. For more discussion of Academic Delight Major, see episode 005.
Selected readings:
Coleman, Steve. The Ringing in History Companion.
Morris, Ernest. The History and Art of Change Ringing.
Sanderson, J (ed.). Change Ringing: The History of an English Art, vol I-III (CCCBR).
Davies, Michael B. The Unassuming Genius: The Life and Times of AJ Pitman.
Shurcliff, Margaret Homer. Lively Days: Some Memoirs of Margaret Homer Shurcliff.
Snowdon, Jasper. The Method of Double Norwich Court Bob Major.
Simpson, J. Michael (ed.). There Was Life Before NAG (NAGCR, available at nagcr.org).
Bryn Reinstadler on Teaching Change-Ringing at MIT
Bryn Reinstadler is a graduate of Williams College, a graduate student in machine learning and artificial intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is the voice (and aesthetic sensibility) of Ringing Room.
Bryn, with Leland Kusmer, taught MIT's recent course "English Change-Ringing: A Mathematical-Musical Team Sport." (Their reading list for this project is at the end of these notes.)
If you'd like a short introduction to machine learning, Bryn recommends this two-minute YouTube video.
Mostly, though, we talk about permutations, Cayley graphs, and touring permutation groups. You know: ringing.
For more discussion of the Chandler's 23-band, see the end of episode 001. For more discussion of Academic Delight Major, see episode 005.
Selected readings:
Coleman, Steve. The Ringing in History Companion.
Morris, Ernest. The History and Art of Change Ringing.
Sanderson, J (ed.). Change Ringing: The History of an English Art, vol I-III (CCCBR).
Davies, Michael B. The Unassuming Genius: The Life and Times of AJ Pitman.
Shurcliff, Margaret Homer. Lively Days: Some Memoirs of Margaret Homer Shurcliff.
Snowdon, Jasper. The Method of Double Norwich Court Bob Major.
Simpson, J. Michael (ed.). There Was Life Before NAG (NAGCR, available at nagcr.org).