...by Fall Out Boy. No, but seriously, I've started a little thing where I get tipsy, read Summa Theologica, and liveblog it. http://drunktheology.tumblr.com/tagged/summa-theologica/chrono should let you read it in order if this sounds like something you might be interested in!
I was supposed to read at least part of Summa Theologica for a class and I totally just vaguely skimmed it. Now we'll see how much I missed. Regarding math and music, I think he is thinking of the Classical Quadrivium conception of music as a physical manifestation of arithmetic and that the study of music, not the playing or composition but the study, requires understanding of mathematics. Aquinas had absorbed quite a bit of the Neo-Platonist tradition, which includes music-as-arithmetic and astronomy-as-geometry. But then, given the current state of mathematical music theory, I'm not sure if contemporary music theorists haven't gone a bit too far trying to include mathematics into their theories. The vast majority is either nonmusical or nonmathematical or both.
So. this guy. One of the first debaters I coached back when I was in college. It amuses me to no end Bob ended up being a scholar of Aquinas, of all things.
It helps that Aquinas was from before we moved to this well-temperament nonsense, so that the ratios of string-lengths and tensions were actually rational numbers and hence susceptible to arithmetic.
