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==Contributions to music theory== | ==Contributions to music theory== | ||
Sgutsitn's best known written work is her treatise, which describes: | Sgutsitn's best known written work is her treatise on equal temperaments, which describes: | ||
*Various regular temperaments and the equal temperaments supporting them. The equal temperaments supporting a regular temperament also characterize that temperament. | *Various regular temperaments and the equal temperaments supporting them. The equal temperaments supporting a regular temperament also characterize that temperament. | ||
**(The appendix gives proofs that the algorithms she uses work; however she didn't have the modern algebraic language to describe what in effect she was doing, making the treatment mathematically less clean than it could have been.) | **(The appendix gives proofs that the algorithms she uses work; however she didn't have the modern algebraic language to describe what in effect she was doing, making the treatment mathematically less clean than it could have been.) | ||