I was having dinner with a visiting colleague this week when talk turned to what we were teaching this term. He mentioned the part of calculus dealing with infinite series (the bane of many students) ...

An ordered set of frequencies which are integer multiples of a FUNDAMENTAL. The first 32 partials of a HARMONIC SERIES shown as a line spectrum. The amplitude of each partial is inversely proportional ...

Kleiner Perkins Leads Round at $875M Valuation of Math-Based AI Venture, Joined by Paradigm & Others Harmonic, the artificial intelligence lab leading the development of Mathematical Superintelligence ...

In a 1959 educational recording titled the Theory and Practice of Just Intonation musicologist J. Murray Barbour wrote, “The ideal ‘Just Intonation’ may be fully attainable in some musical fourth ...

Mathematics is full of numbers that seem to keep popping up out of nowhere. Take pi, for instance, which appears in pretty much everything. Here's another one: Euler's constant. Also called the ...

The representation of a PERIODIC sound or WAVEFORM as a sum of Fourier components (i.e. pure SINUSOIDAL WAVEs). According to the FOURIER THEOREM, periodic sound may be shown to consist of SINE WAVEs ...

Keep going. If you stack as many blocks as you can, what is the farthest overhang you can achieve before the entire structure topples? Is it possible for the tower to extend a full block length beyond ...

Zipf's (1949) generalized harmonic series model of occupational differentiation is tested in 91 community general hospitals. It was not possible to reject this model ...