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Advanced Mathematics Applied to “A Hard Day’s Night”

In mathematics, music, science on 16 November 2008 with View Comments

After years of trying to figure out the first chord of “A Hard Day’s Night,” Jason Brown of Dalhousie’s Department of Mathematics decided to throw a little math at the problem and ran a Fourier analysis. You remember from your mechanical vibrations, mechanical controls, and digital signal processing courses that a Fourier analysis can be [...]