Ancient Greek Mathematician, Philosopher Created Pythagorean Comma | The mathematics of music - Greek Reporter

Patricia Claus, GreekReporter.com writes, The Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras, applied his genius to music as well, creating the Pythagorean comma in music theory.

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The Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras, who lived 2,500 years ago, applied his genius to music as well throughout his brilliant career, creating the Pythagorean comma as part of music theory, and his brilliance is still recognized to this day.

The Pythagorean Theorem remains one of the fundamental ideas in the realm of mathematics, and is still taught in schools across the world.

The influence of the Ancient Greek thinker, who was born on the island of Samos in the year 570 BC, remains strong today in many realms — but unfortunately so do the mysteries surrounding the great Greek philosopher.

Pythagoras’ philosophy influenced both Plato and Aristotle, and through them his ideas were fundamental in Western philosophy...

The Pythagorean comma can be also defined as the difference between a Pythagorean apotome and a Pythagorean limma (i.e., between a chromatic and a diatonic semitone, as determined in Pythagorean tuning), or the difference between twelve just perfect fifths and seven octaves, or the difference between three Pythagorean ditones and one octave (this is the reason why the Pythagorean comma is also called a ditonic comma).

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