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Pythagoras

Pythagoras . “All things are numbers. Mathematics is the basis for everything, and geometry is the highest form of mathematical studies. The physical world can understood through mathematics.”. Biological information. Pythagoras was born in around 569 BC in a Greek city called Samos in

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Pythagoras

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  1. Pythagoras “All things are numbers. Mathematics is the basis for everything, and geometry is the highest form of mathematical studies. The physical world can understood through mathematics.”

  2. Biological information • Pythagoras was born in around 569 BC in a Greek city called Samos in • (southern ) Greece. • He died around 475 BC in Samos • The dates for when he was born and died was not agreed upon by all sources.

  3. Mathematical contributions and Achievements • Pythagoras is credited for discovering the Pythagorean theorem (a theorem in geometry that says in a right triangle, the value of one leg squared plus the value of the second leg squared equals the value of the hypotenuse squared) • The Indians and the Babylonians used the theorem, but Pythagoras proved it was true. • Pythagoras thought that music and sounds could be translated into mathematical equations

  4. pythagorism The religion and philosophy of Pythagoras

  5. General information • The Pythagoreans wore their hair long, had simple clothing, and walked barefoot to be more pure. • Some religions that was made by an important social figure at the time had made a god out of themselves, but when they died, the religion dissipated. Pythagoras was not the god of his religion, which was unusual for the time. • The religion believed in “the wheel of birth” which is the Pythagorean term for reincarnation.

  6. food restrictions & views of Women • Women were given equal opportunity • Practiced skills like forms of mathematics and philosophy. • Pythagoreans couldn’t eat meat, any kind of bean or fish. • Some stories of the murder of Pythagoreans revolve around their food restrictions.

  7. Pythagoras’s bean-inflicted death • Pythagoras and his followers abstained from beans, so when an anti-Pythagorean mob attacked Pythagoras and his followers, they had a choice, run into a bean field and live, or abstain from going near the field and die. • The Pythagoreans chose death.

  8. Works Cited • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras • http://www.mathopenref.com/pythagoras.html • http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Pythagoras.htm • http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoras/

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