Peter Varley <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>I think there's a misunderstanding here.  The composers listed were
>*either* chess-players *or* mathematicians.  It's not really surprising
>that the ones who were mathematicians were excessively mathematical, is it?

No, but I gathered that the hope was to show that nearly all composers have
either a mathematical or a chess-playing bet.

I'll agree that Prokofiev doesn't fit the mold so far (but neither does
Rimsky-Korsakov or Borodin, whose names also came up).  So maybe we are
making progress toward that end.

 - seb