NDLI: Ancient Math & Music

Content Provider	PBS LearningMedia
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Explore how Pythagoras and Plato found mathematics in music and nature in this video from NOVA: The Great Math Mystery. The ancient Greeks identified three pleasing musical intervals: an octave, a fifth, and a fourth. Pythagoras discovered that the beautiful musical relationship between the notes was also a mathematical relationship: the harmonious sounds are produced by vibrating strings with particular ratios of string length. Plato believed geometry and mathematics exist in their own ideal world and that certain shapes (now known as the Platonic solids) were associated with the classical elements from which the world was made: earth, fire, air, water, and the universe.
Sponsorship	David H. Koch Fund for Science Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Language	English
Publisher	PBS Learning Media
Publisher Date	2015-05-22
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	WGBH Educational Foundation
Subject Keyword	Social Studies World History Classical Traditions (1000 BCE-300 CE) The Mediterranean (600-200 BCE) Mathematics K-8 Mathematics Ratios & Proportional Systems Concepts and Reasoning The Ratio Concept and Ratio Language (Grade 6) Ideas and Intellectual Developments
Content Type	Video
Educational Role	Teacher Student
Time Required	PT5M31S
Education Level	Class XI Class VII Class VIII Class IX Class XII Class VI Class X
Resource Type	Broadcast
Subject	Ancient History

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Ancient Math & Music