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## G reat minds have long sought to explain the relationship between mathematics and music. This course will take you inside a fascinating subject filled with beautiful symmetries and simple mathematical explanations of musical sounds you hear every day. Exploring the connections between math and music, while assuming little background in either subject, will help you understand the seemingly simple sound of a vibrating string, the full sound of a symphony orchestra, an intricate Bach canon, how music is recorded, and even the voice of a loved one on the other end of the phone. Throughout the course, the central goal will be to reveal how mathematics helps us understand the musical experience. Structured around the experience of listening to music, the course will start where all music starts: with vibrating objects. Whether a metal string, a tube of air, or a circular membrane, every instrument vibrates in particular ways, producing not only the frequency we notice most clearly but also a set of predictable overtones. The structure of these overtones, analyzed with mathematics appropriately called "harmonic analysis," leads to myriad fascinating topics: why different cultures choo

Author

David Kung

Published

2013

Language

EN