Pythagoras

American  

[pi-thag-er-uhs] / pɪˈθæg ər əs /

noun

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

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Pythagoras ¹ British  

/ paɪˈθæɡərəs /

noun

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

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Pythagoras ² British  

/ paɪˈθæɡərəs /

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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Pythagoras Scientific  

/ 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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Pythagoras

Pythagoras believed that each soul passed from one body to another after death.

From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2024

But researchers from Cambridge University, Princeton and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, have now discovered two key ways in which Pythagoras was wrong.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2024

Each of these, Pythagoras to Euclid, could be counted as a tabula rasa.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023

Though the theorem is named for the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras, some historians believe it was known in Babylon around 1,000 years earlier.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 10, 2023

And to Pythagoras the connection between shapes and numbers was deep and mystical.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife