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Pythagoras

Pythagoras. Presented by Christian Cathey. Life. Born on the island of Samos in Greece approximately 570 B.C. An expert in many areas, including reincarnation and religious rituals. Lived an extremely disciplined life which involved dietary restrictions, religious rituals, and self-control.

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Pythagoras

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  1. Pythagoras Presented by Christian Cathey

  2. Life • Born on the island of Samos in Greece approximately 570 B.C. • An expert in many areas, including reincarnation and religious rituals. • Lived an extremely disciplined life which involved dietary restrictions, religious rituals, and self-control. • Did not keep any written accounts of his thoughts or ideas. • Headed the secret brotherhood that worshiped numbers and numerical relationships and tried to explain music, the gods, the cosmos, etc. mathematically.

  3. Map of Samos, Greece

  4. Contributions to Mathematics • Started a school in Croton that emphasized the teaching and learning of Mathematics. • Identified irrational numbers • Applied mathematics to music and found that strings (on instruments) with lengths that are whole numbers produce harmonious tones • Identified properties of numbers, such as odd, even, and perfect. • May have identified the five regular solids • Introduced geometrical algebra (using geometric figures to solve equations) • Introduced the Pythagorean Theorem

  5. Statue of Pythagoras on the island of Samos

  6. Sources • http://arcytech.org/java/pythagoras/history.html • http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoras/ • http://phoenicia.org/pythagoras.html • http://thegooddoctorfio.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/pythagorean-theorem.gif The End!

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