You have surely heard about the Greek philosopher Pythagoras. But did you know that he devised the world's first tuning system called Pythagorean tuning, too? We learn this from 23-year-old musician Indroneil Kanungo, a student at the True School of Music, where he will be conducting a masterclass this Thursday. Titled Where Art Meets Mathematics, the interactive discussion will shed light on the history and mathematical foundations behind music theory, alternative tuning systems and micro-tonal music.

"A lot of patterns that musicians rely on to write and analyse music, if understood fundamentally, aren't just very interesting, but extremely practical, too. It's by understanding these patterns that musicians like Beethoven composed a good portion of their repertoire in spite of a major hearing loss," Kanungo explains, adding that it is no coincidence that the person to have designed the first tuning system was also a mathematician.