Below left: The figure shows how geometrical music theory represents four-note chord-types -- the collections of notes form a tetrahedron, with the colors indicating the spacing between the individual ...

Physics Professor Jesse Berezovsky contends that until now, much of the thinking about math and music has been a top-down approach, applying mathematical ideas to existing musical compositions as a ...

It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and classroom B150, tucked away in a corner of the Northwest Building basement, buzzes with energy. Inside the room, students furiously type on their laptops, flip through ...

Anthony Cheung’s formal mathematical training essentially ended with high school calculus. But as a musician and composer, he has explored mathematical phenomena in new ways, especially through their ...

Celebrating World Music Day this year is the perfect time to explore the symphonic relationship between music and mathematics. This connection, often overlooked, is a powerful tool in teaching complex ...

Lillian Pierce wants to transform access to the world of mathematics, while making headway on problems that bridge the discrete and continuous. Lillian Pierce vividly remembers a moment when she was 4 ...

His 6th-century-BCE experiments of plucking stretched strings of different lengths reportedly led him to stumble upon the harmonious connection between frequencies and their ratios. Certain simple ...