Bruce Sagan's Home Page

The following is some information about two of my loves: mathematics and music. (The third one is my wife, Sally.) I have tried to keep things brief by only listing headings that you can click on to access more information.

Photo credit: Sergey Fomin

Mathematical Machinations

Preprints and other articles

Preprints
Published papers

Books

The Symmetric Group: Representations, Combinatorial Algorithms and Symmetric Functions: Preface to the 1st edition; Preface to the 2nd edition; Publication information
Mathematical Essays in Honor of Gian-Carlo Rota (as editor with R. Stanley): Publication information

Talks

Slides for my talks

Miscellaneous

CV and bibliography
Combinatorics and Graph Theory Seminar

Musical Motifs

Here is information about Scandinavian dancing and music in Ann Arbor, the Scandinavian week that I run along with Meg Mabbs and Paula Goode, my albums, and other musical miscellanea:

Ann Arbor Information

International dancing

Scandinavian dancing

Pictures from the end of term parties (Thanks to Judy Heady): Bruce and Sally, Bruce and Sally again, Suzanne and John, Suzanne teaching, dancers, musicians, more musicians, yet more musicians, even more musicians, Långdans från Sollerön, more Långdans från Sollerön,

Music and Dance Camps (where Bruce has taught)

Nordic Fiddles and Feet

Ashokan (Northern Week)

Albums

Spelstundarna

General information

How to buy

The following mp3 files are some selections from the album to give an idea of the music it contains.

Skålarna This is a tune from the repertoire of the great 19th century nyckelharpa player Byss-Kalle. The title means "The toasts."

Trollrikepolskan A composition of the foremost 20th century nyckelharpa player Eric Sahlström. It is dedicated to the farm where he grew up, Trollrike.

Knarligen This piece is a composition of Andrea's in Swedish style.

Bruce Sagan: With Friends

Liner Notes

Artwork

Review from Spelmannen (Swedish folkmusic magazine)

The following mp3 files are some selections from the album to give an idea of the music it contains.

Bob och Lauras 40Årsvals Bob and Laura Stein are good friends and great supporters of the folk community.

Hambo till Sally This is a hambo that I wrote for my beloved Sally on the occasion of our first anniversary.