The hermit thrush may well be the Beyoncé of the bird world thanks to its tuneful melodies, a study has revealed. Scientists have discovered that the North American songbird sings in 'harmonic series' ...

Poets frequently liken birdsong to music, but in the case of the North American hermit thrush, the comparison isn’t just lyrical—it’s mathematically accurate. When the bird sings, it adheres to the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. As it’s Bird Week here on Classic, I thought it might be a good moment to consider, and basically ...

...We can only imagine what an impoverished existence it would be without this glorious art form to accompany us, entertain us, console us, enthrall us, and ultimately, elevate and inspire us to ...

An ordered set of frequencies which are integer multiples of a FUNDAMENTAL. The first 32 partials of a HARMONIC SERIES shown as a line spectrum. The amplitude of each partial is inversely proportional ...

I was having dinner with a visiting colleague this week when talk turned to what we were teaching this term. He mentioned the part of calculus dealing with infinite series (the bane of many students) ...

Zipf's (1949) generalized harmonic series model of occupational differentiation is tested in 91 community general hospitals. It was not possible to reject this model ...