Researchers have invented an algorithm that produces a real-time portamento effect, gliding a note at one pitch into a note of another pitch, between any two audio signals, such as a piano note ...

It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and classroom B150, tucked away in a corner of the Northwest Building basement, buzzes with energy. Inside the room, students furiously type on their laptops, flip through ...

‏Jami Jorgensen is the human jukebox of quadratic equations. “Anything that’s an algorithm, I have a song for it,” said the energetic middle-school math teacher in Hayward Unified, in the east Bay ...

Lillian Pierce wants to transform access to the world of mathematics, while making headway on problems that bridge the discrete and continuous. Lillian Pierce vividly remembers a moment when she was 4 ...

Next time you listen to a favorite tune or wonder at the beauty of a natural sound, you might also end up pondering the math behind the music. "Why is music composed according to so many rules? Why do ...

The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science wrapped up last week in Washington, DC. One particularly enjoyable and informative highlight was a session on Mathematics ...