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Pythagoras

[pi-thag-er-uh s]
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  1. c582–c500 b.c., Greek philosopher, mathematician, and religious reformer.
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Historical Examples

  • He seems to have a leaning for metempsychosis and the doctrines of Pythagoras.

    The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales

    Arthur Conan Doyle

  • There were thirty-five ships from Peloponnesus, with the Lacedaemonian admiral Pythagoras on board.

    Anabasis

    Xenophon

  • Pythagoras is said to have discovered the theory of proportionals or proportion.

  • Even in the days of Pythagoras lectures were closed by music.

    Debts of Honor

    Maurus Jkai

  • Pythagoras, though not a Spartan, is associated with southern Greece.

British Dictionary definitions for pythagoras

Pythagoras1

noun
  1. ?580–?500 bc, Greek philosopher and mathematician. He founded a religious brotherhood, which followed a life of strict asceticism and greatly influenced the development of mathematics and its application to music and astronomy
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Pythagoras2

noun
  1. a deep crater in the NE quadrant of the moon, 136 kilometres in diameter
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Pythagoras

[pĭ-thăg′ər-əs]
  1. Greek philosopher and mathematician who theorized that numbers constitute the essence of all natural things. He developed the Pythagorean theorem and was one of the first to apply mathematical order to observations of the stars.
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