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PYTHAGORAS

PYTHAGORAS. Life And Death. Born in 570 BC Born on small island called Samos Son of Pythais and Mnesarches Had 2-3 brothers Believed in Metempsychosis and Transmigration Married Theano Had 1 son Had 3 daughters. Life And Death. Died in 530 BC Lived to be 40 years old

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PYTHAGORAS

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  1. PYTHAGORAS

  2. Life And Death • Born in 570 BC • Born on small island called Samos • Son of Pythais and Mnesarches • Had 2-3 brothers • Believed in Metempsychosis and Transmigration • Married Theano • Had 1 son • Had 3 daughters

  3. Life And Death • Died in 530 BC • Lived to be 40 years old • Fled from Samos to Egypt to escape tyranny of Polycrates • Some say he fled Tarentum then Metapontum and there starved himself to death

  4. Contributions to mathematics • Pythagorean Therom • a2+b2=c2 • Numerical ratio on a musical scale • Discovered square roots • Discovered how to determine the number of degrees in a polygon • Discovered rational and irrational numbers

  5. Other Cool Facts • Contributed to music, cosmology (study of the universe), and medicine • The Druze and Ahlal-Tawhid thought of him as a prophet • He was a preacher of his own religion • Started the Pythagorean brotherhood • Started school in southern Italy called Semicircle

  6. Other Cool Facts • Thought to have had supernatural powers in his time • Called the “Father of Numbers” • Credited for creating the tetractys (triangular figure made of 10 points arranged in 4 rows making what Pythagoras said was the perfect number) that the Pythagoreans would swear oaths by

  7. Pythagoras Written by: Christina Quenon Sources: absoluteastronomy.com answers.com about.com 3villagecsd.k12.ny.us satoss.uni.lu students.umf.maine.edu blogs.colette.fr in2greece.com

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