Most people are comfortable with the idea that music -- from classical to jazz to rock to pop and everything in between -- is a form of art. And yet the question persists -- what tools can accentuate ...

Alex Song (Zhuo Qun) is the 18-year-old Canadian who won the prestigious International Mathematical Olympiad in Thailand. While most eyes were on the athletic competitions at the Pan Am Games in ...

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- "Divide, multiply and subtract! Break it on down and bring it on back." If you say it enough, you'll probably have it memorized in no time. At least, that's the goal for some ...

This professor used math to determine which Beatle wrote which song Jason Brown, a mathematics professor at Dalhousie, joins us to discuss the mathematical model to determine who wrote a handful of ...

Alex Song is the Chinese-Canadian who achieved an astonishing victory at the recent Mathematical Olympiad, held this year in Thailand. Team Canada leader, Jacob Tsimerman, an associate professor of ...

Researchers from Canada and the U.S. are using math to unravel one of the greatest musical mysteries of the modern era: Who wrote “In My Life,” a nostalgic rock ballad on the Beatles’ 1965 album ...

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 ...