Joe Breen looks to integrate math and music, one function at a time. The graduate mathematics student started a YouTube channel in spring 2020 focusing on music videos about calculus and topics in ...
Heine Borel and the Finite Subcovers, a band composed of Notre Dame honors math graduates, now has their work out on vinyl.
The pop songs you love might feel so catchy they’re magic, but their ability to get stuck in your head isn’t fairy dust and sparkles: it’s melodic math. Music researchers use melodic math to refer to ...
Music and mathematics have long been thought of as two distinct disciplines, but upon closer examination, it becomes apparent that the two are deeply interconnected. From the rhythms and patterns ...
To Christopher Taylor, there is no struggle in music between the intellectual – manifested in the mathematical precision of a composition – and the emotional, the simple beauty of the sound. Instead, ...
There's beauty in numbers, says Andover High School math teacher Penny Carda. But how to show that to students? Where she sees echoes of music and nature in the orderly advance of prime numbers — ...
Fullerton College’s Stephen L. Plett could simply present a sequence of problems involving fractions to his students. But why be dull when there’s harmony in numbers? The California community-college ...
A state bill may run into problems when trying to incorporate music education into middle school math classes. “In the same way that some people may not be math people, math teachers may not be music ...
Even John Lennon and Paul McCartney couldn't remember who wrote the music for In My Life. Stats to the rescue! CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author ...