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Pythagoras of Samos 569 B.C. – 475 B.C.

Pythagoras of Samos 569 B.C. – 475 B.C. Created by – Thomas Eric Horace Mann Middle School. Introduction.

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Pythagoras of Samos 569 B.C. – 475 B.C.

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  1. Pythagoras of Samos569 B.C. – 475 B.C. Created by – Thomas Eric Horace Mann Middle School

  2. Introduction. • Pythagoras of Samos was a Greek philosopher responsible for important developments in mathematics, astronomy and the theory of music. He founded a philosophical and religious school in Croton that had many followers. History calls his followers the Pythagoreans.

  3. Contributions to Mathematics. • Pythagoras is best known for the formula that bears his name. • Although the theorem is accredited to Pythagoras the communal nature of the Pythagorean organization makes it difficult to find its true discoverer. • The theorem may even have been discovered in Babylonia 1000 years before Pythagoras.

  4. Historical events surrounding Pythagoras’s life. • In about 535 BC Pythagoras went to Egypt. • In 525 BC Cambyses II, the king of Persia, invaded Egypt. • Pythagoras was taken prisoner and taken to Babylon. • In about 520 BC Pythagoras left Babylon and returned to Samos.

  5. Pythagoras’s thoughts on our day. • I think that Pythagoras would be impressed with the advances of women in the sciences. • In Pythagoras’s day women were not allowed in most learning environments. • Pythagoras encouraged women to become his pupils

  6. Conclusion The End

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