Supposedly, Greek philosopher Pythagoras discovered this ratio — ancient Greeks incorporated it into their art and architecture while the ancient Egyptians used the 'Golden Ratio' to construct their pyramids.

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A pair of studies by Duke University neuroscientists shows powerful new evidence of a deep biological link between human music and speech.

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Some of us wondered in geometry class how Pythagoras came up with his famous theorem regarding the relationship between the hypotenuse and the remaining two sides of a right triangle.

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Do you know Indians seem to have the Pythagoras Theorem even before Greek philosopher derived it. And the instruments that Sushrutha

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Why I don't want to be a philosopher? "Let no one unversed in geometry enter here."

As time passes by in the twilight of one's career, the most painful predicament is when one becomes aware of 'so much to learn with so little time available.' It is always the inadequacies and gaps in my comprehension of universal truth, the very idea of knowing so little a …

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Roughly 2,500 years ago, Pythagoras observed that objects, such as the anvils he purportedly studied, produced harmonious sounds while vibrating at frequencies in simple whole-number ratios.

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There is in fact a kind of chicken-and-egg problem with the universe and its laws. Which "came" first — the laws or the universe?

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Music, Symbolism, Magic and Manipulation

In two separate articles -- one recent (Music, Math & Models) and another slightly less so (Phi -- How the Golden Ratio Determines Who is a Supermodel) -- Cash has demonstrated his point that music is math, clearly enough that even Al Gore couldn't get it wrong.

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They're just a fabrication of 19th Century romanticism, Roman propaganda, and 150 years of poor teaching.

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