Alexey Fuchs said:

>According to Pushkin, Salieri tried to "measure harmony with algebra"
>(sorry for lame translation).  According to Forman he ended up "King of
>Mediocrities." I do not share this view, though.  If memory does not betray
>me, in the mediaeval times, music and math were one subject, weren't they?

I don't know about this, but there is at least one XX century American
composer of quasi-aleatory (i.e. random but scored) music cum polymath who
works out all of his music in numbers and only converts them to notes on
the final score.  His name evades me, though.

Sam Kemp