Slate recently reran a New Scientist piece about the similarities between mathematical patterns musicologists use and mathematical patterns researchers to explore other fields. Pythagoras did something similar two and a half millennia ago, and built a whole religion around it. The Pythagorean cult was apparently still up and running in 1959, that’s when no less a celebrity than Donald Duck was initiated into Pythagoreanism:
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