Meet UT math professor and spellbinding songwriter Sean Keel.
Wednesday is Song Circle Night at Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos – a nice way of saying"open mic." There are about a dozen songwriters waiting to go on, and one of them is an older man who kisses his wife, leaves a drink on the wooden spool table and walks on stage with the slight huddling of a retired athlete. Gingerly, he sits down, holding his steel string acoustic angled vertically like a classical guitarist.
But Keel didn't even pick up a guitar until he was 45, as something to do because he couldn't play sports, especially his beloved hockey, like he used to. Sean Keel has been a research professor of mathematics at the University of Texas since 1989."My music isn't very well-known," he says,"but my work in math is quite well-known, to an admittedly small crowd." If you Google"Sean Keel live," the first three videos that come up are lectures about a subject where algebraic geometry informs applications in theoretical physics. Specifically, his field of study is the nine-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifold.
"I used to climb up into her lap and ask, like any kid, 'Ma, tell me a story.' She would say, 'Nah, Sean, how about you tell one to me?'"
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