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Oxford University Press USA
Check out this book. I found an ebook of it years ago and half of the pages were blurred out so I never got around to finishing it. In the first few chapters the author explains why the 12 note scale came to be and how it was designed.
The 12 note system also has a lot to do with how our ears and brains work. A half step is the smallest musical interval that humans can easily discern. That's not to be said that a quarter step or eighth step can't be discerned with practice and training.
For a challenging book on the relation between mathematics and music, check out Music and Mathematics: From Pythagoras to Fractals.