1. Robert Peter Schneider was born on March 9,1971 and is an American musician and mathematician.
13 Facts About Robert Schneider
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Robert Schneider received a PhD in mathematics from Emory University in 2018.
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Robert Schneider collaborated with Andy Partridge of XTC in the early 2000s, with the pair reportedly writing over thirty songs together by telephone; the project produced no recorded results.
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Robert Schneider composed a number of jingles for television commercials during the 2000s, including a string of pop songs for the Kohl's department store chain.
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Robert Schneider formed a comparatively dark band in 2004 called Ulysses in Lexington, Kentucky, which released the 2005 album 010 on Eenie Meenie Records recorded live with a single microphone, and released a second Marbles album Expo in 2005 influenced by Electric Light Orchestra, as well as Gary Numan, Michael Jackson, New Order and the Cars.
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In 2017, Robert Schneider formed the Atlanta-based band Air-sea Dolphin with guitarist Matt Chapman and bassist Mike Chapman, guitarist Ryan Sterritt and drummer James Huggins III.
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Robert Schneider has engaged in a number of experimental music projects taking inspiration from mathematical concepts.
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Robert Schneider has written several compositions using a non-Pythagorean scale based on logarithms.
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Robert Schneider has incorporated prime numbers and the sieve of Eratosthenes in both a composition to be performed by a bell tower, and in the score for a play by mathematician Andrew Granville and playwright Jennifer Granville that debuted at the Institute for Advanced Study on December 12,2009, and he has written a plan for an electronic composition based on prime numbers lasting millions of years.
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Since September 2010, Robert Schneider has performed using a mind-controlled analog synthesizer.
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In 2012, Robert Schneider completed his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Kentucky.
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In 2018, Robert Schneider completed a PhD in mathematics from Emory University, where he studied number theory under Ken Ono.
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Robert Schneider conceived and developed a new non-Pythagorean scale with frequencies corresponding to the natural logarithms of successive whole numbers.