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Music by the numbers : from Pythagoras to Schoenberg / Eli Maor

This study explores the reciprocal relationship between music, mathematics, and the sciences from ancient Greece to the twentieth century. It examines how musical problems, such as the vibrating string, have influenced developments in physics, geometry, and astronomy.

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