Analyzing–REALLY Analyzing–A Hard Day’s Night
November 24th, 2008
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In this fun little paper, Jason Brown, a professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Dalhousie University, uses Fourier Transforms to figure out what notes are being played in that first chord of A Hard Day’s Night. Turns out, common transcriptions must be wrong–and a piano is involved.
Even math is more fun in Canada!