Jason I. Brown ...
is a mathematician, author, songwriter and guitarist. His research that used mathematics to uncover how the Beatles played the opening chord of "A Hard Day's Night" has garnered worldwide attention. His recent book, "Our Days Are Numbered" (published by McClelland and Stewart in Canada) explains how mathematics plays an active role in everyone's life, and that just a little more math can not only make each day more interesting, but each person more creative. Jason teaches mathematics at Dalhousie University, where he is a professor of mathematics. |
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What's Brand New...
- My appoearance as one of the three judges in the Break It Down Show knockdown fight between The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album and U2's Joshua Tree (December 23, 2019).
- My interactive article with Mark Glickman and Ryan Song, "(A) Data in the Life: Authorship Attruibution in Lennon-McCartney Songs", appeared in the inaugural issue of the Harvard Data Science Review (June 22, 2019).
- Math and music interview on CBC radio's Mainstreet (November 26, 2018).
- November 22, 2018 Apperance on CTV's Morning Live! on mathematics, music and The Beatles' White Album.
- August 2018 articles and video on my current research on music authentication and The Beatles In My Life: CBC, Smithsonian.com, Science Daily, National Post, The Star, The New York Post, Market Business News.
- And in other languages across the world: France Inter (french), El Pais (spanish), Eurpopass (spanish), NHH (german), B.T. (danish), YNET (hebrew).
A Bit Older ...
- My invited presentation at Moses Znaimer's Ideacity 2014 conference in Toronto!
- An interview with Libby Znaimer on Zooomer Radio's Week in Review (June 8, 2014).
- An CBC interview and song on the debt level of Nova Scotians (August 20, 2013).
- An article on my work in the German magazine Der Spiegel.
- An interview on Dutch television.
- Public lecture "Science Sings the Blues" for the National Academy of Sciences at the Beckman Center in Irvine California. A promotional piece about the talk is also avilable.
- My interview on BBC's "More or Less" show (at the 23 minutes mark).
- Read "Let Me Take You Down - The Mathematics Behind the Most Famous Edit in Rock 'n' Roll"l(Notes of the Canadian Mathematical Society, February 2011). The article describes how the Beatles' producer, George Martin, spliced together two different takes of Strawberry Fields Forvever, that were in two different keys and two different tempos, why it worked, and why mathematically he could never satisify Paul's unerring sense of rhythm.
- Public Speaking Engagements: Carleton University (May 14, 2010), Canadian Mathematical Society's Summer 2010 Meeting at the University of Fredericton (June 3, 2010).
- Recent media: CBC's Ontario Today interview and call-in show (May 13, 2010), CBC's Maritime Noon interview and call-in show (May 26, 2010), Q104 radio interview (June 6, 2010).
- My first album, Songs in the Key of Pi has been relased on iTunes and amazon.com.
- The American Mathematical Society's poster and podcast in their Math Moments series
- Public speaking engagements: West Virginia University (February 9, 2010), Western Kentucky University (November 5, 2009)
- Read "Deducing the Blues" (Notes of the Canadian Mathematical Society, May 2009). The article explains why the famous blues progression is what it is - 12 bars long, a certain sequence of 7 chords of determined length, wy it demands to be repeated endlessly, and why it is so good! The link is the entire pdf of the issue (the article is on pages 13 - 15) so that around the water cooler, you can say "You know, I was just leafing through the current issue of a math journal, when I came across this interesting article …"
- Lend an ear to BBC's More and Less interview of me.
- CFRB's Rock Talk's Blair Packham and Bob Reid interview me (May 10, 2009), as does Andrew Crystal on News 95.7's Maritime Morning, and John Maciel on KW Magazine.
- Hear me on the call-in show Maritime Noon with Costas Halavrezos, and Radio Noon with Sue Smith where I answered listeners' math questions.
- Business Spotlight interviewed me for a podcast.
- Read the interview by the Wall Street Journal
- View the video of the Song "A Million Whys"