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Pythagoras of Samos , 570-495 bce. From Capitoline Museums , Rome. Pythagoras .
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Pythagoras of Samos , 570-495 bce From Capitoline Museums, Rome
Pythagoras “Pythagoras was intellectually one of the most important men ever lived… Mathematics in the sense of demostrative deductive argument begins with him, and in him is intimately connected with a peculiar form of mysticism” B. Russell, History of Western Philosophy.
Other important pre-Socratics • Xenophanes (575 bce) • 2. Heraclitus (535 bce) 3. Paremenides (514 bc) 4. Empedocles 5. The Atomists