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From Music to Mathematics: Exploring the Connections by Gareth E. Roberts

BALTIMORE: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2016, 301 PP., US $41.88, ISBN-10: 1421419181, ISBN-13: 978-1421419183

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Del Cerro Santamaría, G. From Music to Mathematics: Exploring the Connections by Gareth E. Roberts. Math Intelligencer 42, 85–88 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-019-09933-4

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