4 lives in this collection worked in music theory, from 428 BC to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: mechanics. All fields
Pythagorean mathematician and general of Tarentum who defined the three musical means, proved that superparticular ratios have no mean proportional, and gave the first solution of the doubling of the cube.
geometry, theory of proportion, music theory
Alexandrian astronomer of the second century AD whose Almagest set out the geocentric models, chord table and star catalogue that governed astronomy until Copernicus and Kepler.
astronomy, trigonometry, geography
Flemish engineer who popularized decimal fractions and founded modern statics and hydrostatics.
arithmetic, algebra, statics
Minim friar who established the laws of the vibrating string, gave his name to the primes 2^p − 1, and ran the correspondence network at the centre of European science in the 1630s and 1640s.
acoustics, music theory, number theory