Not sure how much rigorous examination this kind of connection can really hold up using modern science, tools, resources, etc, but as far as intuition goes, this seems like a natural fit.<p>In graduate school, I did work through some published educational experiments that, in short, concluded having music time in the average school week was an improvement in nearly all other study fields, and particularly pronounced in Math of all things. Even compared to an alternate test group with <i>extra</i> Math time, the Music group did better than that one. The control group got neither and showed no improvement, if I remember it correctly.<p>The relationships between long-form, technical musical proficiency and abstract, logical thinking should be complimentary I think. Lots of the same mental pathways I'd imagine. One guy I knew from finance - a real genius in the synthetics / derivatives arena - had originally gone to University on a full-ride music scholarship. Jazz saxophone and piano I think. After having an, um, trippy experience, he discovered a new-found love of Math and switched majors almost immediately, with great success. Anecdote, sure, but that's how we can make connections for such obtuse notions.