The Mathematics of Musical Instruments

DOI10.2307/2695241MaRDI QIDQ2730811zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rachel Wells Hall, Krešimir Josić

Publication date 6 January 2002

Published in American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2695241

zbMATH Keywords

acousticscontinued fractionsmusicmusical instrumentspartial differential equationswave equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General applied mathematics (00A69) General and miscellaneous specific topics (00A99) Continued fractions (11A55) Linear waves in solid mechanics (74J05)

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