Euler's musical mathematics (Q384281)

This fascinating article describes Euler's significant, but generally not well known, contributions to the theory of music and associated aesthetics. How many of us mathematicians know that Euler wrote a book on `a New Theory of Music Based on the Most Certain Principles of Harmony Clearly Expounded'; or that his work on musical intervals initiated the mathematics of aesthetics (based on a notion of `degree of agreeableness') and led to `the first sustained treatment' of what was then a new kind of mathematical object; or that, after his solution of the problem of the seven bridges of Königsberg, music `was a particularly appropriate first venue for [his] new topological thinking'? All this and more can be found in the article under review, which provides insight into the workings of one of humanity's greatest intellects.