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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: A world in crisis -- String theory, 500 BCE -- Sidebar A. It's all about nomenclatures -- Enlightenment -- The great string debate, 1730-1780 -- Sidebar B. The Slinky -- A most precious gift -- Musical temperament -- Sidebar C. Music for the record books: the lowest, the longest, the oldest, and the weirdest -- Musical gadgets: the tuning fork and the metronome -- Rhythm, meter, and metric -- Frames of reference: where am I? -- Sidebar D. Musical hierarchies -- Relativistic music -- Aftermath -- Sidebar E. The Bernoulli -- The last Pythagoreans

How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth century