Mathematics
Besides his musical studies, Laurent Beeckmans studied mathematics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of East Anglia graduating in 1989 and obtaining his PhD Thesis in 1996. He now teaches mathematics, statistics and logic of programming at the Brussels' High School for Computer Sciences.
During his studies, he specialized into the fascinating field of Number Theory giving a dissertation over Egyptians fractions. His PhD Thesis investigated three further areas of Number Theory: Pell's equations, sums of consecutive squares and a well known conjecture by Erdös on arithmetic progressions.
Laurent Beeckmans likes to investigate the links between music and mathematics on a structural and logical level, but is more reticent to apply methodic manners of writing such as dodecaphonic or serial music.
So that it is only occasionally that he conceives musical works as the result of strict mathematical rules. For instance, the computer generated Etude for Arpeggione can be seen as an application of graph theory, while in Fibonacci Loops, the melodic patterns are drawn from the famous Fibonacci sequence 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13,... in which each term is the sum of the two preceding.