The ancient Greeks may have been onto something when Pythagoras mused about the music of the spheres — a flawed, if romantic concept suggesting the mathematical relationships between celestial bodies ...
Pythagoras himself came up with the theory that numbers are of great importance for understanding the natural world, and he studied the role of numbers in music. Although the Pythagorean theorem bears his name, the discoveries of the Pythagorean theorem and that the square root of 2 is an irrational number were most likely made after his death by his followers.
Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher who made important developments in mathematics, astronomy, and the theory of music. The theorem now known as Pythagoras's theorem was known to the Babylonians 1000 years earlier but he may have been the first to prove it.
If you’ve ever heard the phrase “the music of the spheres,” your first thought probably wasn’t about mathematics. But in its historical origin, the music of the spheres actually was all about math. In ...
sciencex: "The Music of the Spheres": We think that we've found its equation
Pythagoras (569-490 BC) established that the octave (the ratio 1:2 of a string's length) was the fundamental musical interval and saw it as a sign that nature itself, including the planetary orbits ...
"The Music of the Spheres": We think that we've found its equation
Salon: Music of the spheres: Scientists uncover ancient particle hymn from the birth of the universe
Music of the spheres: Scientists uncover ancient particle hymn from the birth of the universe