The Geometry of Musical Rhythm

[2] In 2009 he visited Harvard University as a Radcliffe Fellow in advancement of his research in musical rhythm.

[4][5] As an example, reviewer William Sethares (himself a music theorist and engineer) presents a representation of this type for the tresillo rhythm, in which three beats are hit out of an eight-beat bar, with two long gaps and one short gap between each beat.

[7] Despite concerns with some misused terminology, with "naïveté towards core music theory", and with a mismatch between the visual representation of rhythm and its aural perception, music theorist Mark Gotham calls the book "a substantial contribution to a field that still lags behind the more developed theoretical literature on pitch".

[4] Reviewer Ilhand Izmirli calls the book "delightful, informative, and innovative".

[6] Hendel adds that the book's presentation of its material as speculative and exploratory, rather than as definitive and completed, is "exactly what [mathematics] students need".