Plato noted that there was a certain style of living associated with the followers of Pythagoras, defined by an interest in philosophy, music, mathematics and astronomy.

Pythagoras concluded that mathematics and music were interconnected and that knowledge of one area led to an understanding of the other, according to the University of Connecticut .

How Pythagoras turned math into a tool for understanding reality The ‘music of the spheres’ was born from the effort to use numbers to explain the universe ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about the oldest known tadpole, new proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem, and the evolutionary roots of alcohol consumption.

Figure 2: Pythagorean music theory. Credit: Nicola Scafetta The musical interpretation of our model and its robustness in predicting the relative spacing among the planets of the solar system is ...

Yet this vibrating violin-string universe of string theory is also the vibrating and harmonic universe that Pythagoras described in a cosmogony that has come to be known as "The Music of the ...

In defence of Pythagoras, that he showed us music was based on harmonic intervals was a very impressive analysis with the primitive tools at his disposal. What is more, some of nature’s most ...

Neil McLachlan: All right. Well, our western music traditions go all the way back to Pythagoras and his tunings of strings, which arguably were the first theory of physics. And so Pythagoras came ...

Together, Pythagoras and his disciples articulated for the first time the ‘Perfect’ intervals of the octave, fifth, fourth and second, pioneering the concept of a musical interval which is so embedded ...

From Pythagoras to string theory, explore the surprising connections between music and physics.