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The way I look at it is that there are a lot of musicians who don't bother learning music theory and seem to do just fine. In the same way, there's a lot of people with a pretty good grasp of music theory who don't understand the math and physics of music at all, and it doesn't stop them from making good music. Even so, understanding music theory will usually be helpful to someone who wants to be a good musician, and math and physics can be helpful to someone who wants to compose good music.
Unfortunately, the knowledge about how math and physics applies to music is kind of hard to find, beyond relatively superficial explanations of how musical intervals and chords are constructed from whole number ratios (or approximations thereof).
A pretty good introductory book is "The Science of Musical Sound by John R Pierce" [1]. A lot of the modern understanding of the connection between math and physics and music comes from the research of Herman Helmholtz. You might want to check out "On the Sensations of Tone" [2]. The writings of Harry Partch and Ben Johnston might also be interesting to you if you want to know more about just intonation in particular.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Science-Musical-Sound-Robinson-Pierce/dp/0716760053
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Sensations-Tone-Dover-Books-Music/dp/0486607534
[This] (https://www.amazon.com/Sensations-Tone-Dover-Books-Music/dp/0486607534/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505665842&sr=1-1&keywords=acoustics+helmholtz) is the classic work; but I imagine [this] (https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Musical-Acoustics-Second-Revised/dp/048626484X/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=048626484X&pd_rd_r=572ASRV7AB4RKDNCA9JK&pd_rd_w=kfjB1&pd_rd_wg=ERTx2&psc=1&refRID=572ASRV7AB4RKDNCA9JK) may be an easier read. (I presume it's the musical angle you want.)
There's also [this] (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Acoustics/Fundamentals_of_Acoustics) for free.
The Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics by Arthur Benade
On The Sensations of Tone by Helmholtz
Hermann Helmholtz: On the Sensations of Tone is a classic.
Books that delve into the physics of acoustics require the language of diff-q and fluid dynamics, and so may not be useful to you.