> Music is intimately related to math If anyone had told me that when I was a kid, it would have been a life changing event. My mom had a piano and played it,

> Music is intimately related to math If anyone had told me that when I was a kid, it would have been a life changing event. My mom had a piano and played it, badly. She tried to sight read, but had no sense of tempo, or of starting with slow practice (playing in time, but slower). And she liked to play what she called "schmaltzy" stuff. (Think "Heart and Soul" and "Peg o' My Heart" played with a constantly varying tempo, speeding up and slowing down as she worked out the notes.) This is not to criticize her: she did what she could to instill a love of music in her kids. But I was happier reading my math and physics books. I tried to make sense of Mom's sheet music, but it just seemed like a bunch of dots and lines. If I'd known that sheet music notation had anything to do with math, I would have jumped on it!