Music and Maths go together ?

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I have often felt this to be true. My best subjects at school were Maths and music, my husband is superb at Maths and very interested in it in general and many of my pupils were mathematical too. There is one that comes to mind though, I taught an exceptional mathematician the violin... or tried to, (he eventually got a first at Cambridge in Maths) I showed him that a semitone fingering was close and a tone separate. The next lesson he played very flat on an Fsharp on the D string so I pointed this out. He said very determinedly that I had said it was 'this distance and therefore it must be right'. There are exceptions to every rule !