Mapping the math in music.(News Watch)(Brief article)
Publication: Scientific Computing
Publication Date: 01-MAY-08
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The connection between music and mathematics has fascinated scholars for centuries. More than 2000 years ago, Pythagoras reportedly discovered that pleasing musical intervals could be described using simple ratios. And the so-called musica universalis or "music of the spheres" emerged in the Middle Ages as the philosophical idea that...
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