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The harmony of numbers
The maths of music is more than just keeping the beat – it also helps musicians stay in tune!
A mathematical legacy
Pythagoras was an ancient Greek philosopher who discovered the mathematical structure behind music during the 6th century BC. He was one of the first people to study the properties of numbers, and the relationships between them. As well as recognising the maths of music, he came up the famous theorem for the sides of a right-angled triangle: a² + b² = c².