WHEN MUSIC IS SEEN MATHEMATICALLY"It's hard for anyone to say what music looks like, but a new mathematical approach sees classical music as cone-shaped and jazz as pyramid-like. The connections between math and music are many, from the Mozart effect (the idea that playing Mozart's music to children might improve their mathematical abilities) to the music of the spheres (the ancient belief that proportions in the movements of the planets could be viewed as a form of music). Now scientists have created a mathematical system for understanding music." Clara Moskowitz
"This is an image of the space of three-note chord types. The orange spheres represent the major and minor chords. Credit: Science