Pythagoras

[ pi-thag-er-uh s ]

/ pɪˈθæg ər əs /

noun

c582–c500 b.c., Greek philosopher, mathematician, and religious reformer.

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Examples from the Web for pythagoras

Pythagoras reduced the musical scale to a mathematical science.
Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers|Elbert Hubbard
He is in matter what Pythagoras was in mind; and his transformations are scarcely less curious than those of the Samian sage.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIII.--April, 1852.--Vol. IV.|Various
No line alleged to have been written by Pythagoras has come down to us.
A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5)|Henry Smith Williams
A black-robed figure, wearing a mask, then appeared with a flickering light, and Pythagoras was led into a stone cell.
Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers|Elbert Hubbard

Further conversation was interrupted by the coming of Csar, who occupied his place in company with Pythagoras.
Quo Vadis|Henryk Sienkiewicz

British Dictionary definitions for pythagoras

Pythagoras

/ (paɪˈθæɡərəs) /

noun

?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

Pythagoras

/ (paɪˈθæɡərəs) /

noun

a deep crater in the NE quadrant of the moon, 136 kilometres in diameter

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Science definitions for pythagoras

Pythagoras

[ pĭ-thăg′ər-əs ]

580?-500? bce

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.