{"id":24160,"date":"2013-10-04T20:49:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T00:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/?p=24160"},"modified":"2014-06-21T11:42:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T16:42:26","slug":"math-meets-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2013\/10\/04\/math-meets-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Math Meets Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever found a really fun math or science song? I\u2019m always interested in combining math with other subjects, so I think math-themed songs are pretty entertaining. There are more than you might think, running the gamut from serious math put to a melody, to pop songs with playful mathematical allusions. On the more rigorous side, I still remember the quadratic formula by singing it to the tune of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2lbABbfU6Zc\" target=\"_blank\">Pop Goes The Weasel<\/a>,\u201d as YouTube taught me long ago. There\u2019s also the famous \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA\" target=\"_blank\">New Math<\/a>,\u201d the satire of elementary school subtraction techniques by mathematician and musician Tom Lehrer. Less seriously, Regina Spektor\u2019s song \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2DLp-vE3AKg\" target=\"_blank\">The Calculation<\/a>\u201d whimsically imagines a computer that can describe love mathematically. My favorite math-themed song, though, is \u201cAcademia,\u201d by Australian singer Sia. It bounces between descriptions of mathematical and literary paraphernalia in a lighthearted way. I also really enjoy Steven Bussey\u2019s kinetic typography video for the song, which I\u2019ve embedded below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FH3I-bvbxQo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>How about you? Do you have any favorite songs with academic themes?<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever found a really fun math or science song? I\u2019m always interested in combining math with other subjects, so I think math-themed songs are pretty entertaining. There are more than you might think, running the gamut from serious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2013\/10\/04\/math-meets-music\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" data-url=https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2013\/10\/04\/math-meets-music\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-in-pop-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gbww-6hG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24160"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24174,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24160\/revisions\/24174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}