Pythagoras

Quick Facts on Pythagoras

• He was born at Samos in 570 B.C.

• His main interests were in Metaphysics, Music, Mathematics, Ethics and Politics.

• His notable works were Musica universalis, Golden ratio, Pythagorean tuning, Pythagorean theorem.

• He died at Metapontum in 495 B.C when he was aged around 75 yrs.

Quick Facts on PythagorasThe present country of

SamosThe ruined city of Metapontum

Life History

Life of Pythagoras•  His father, Mnesarchus, was a gem merchant.

His mother's name was Pythais. Pythagoras had two or three brothers.

• Some historians say that Pythagoras was married to a woman named Theano and had a daughter Damo, and a son named Telauges, who succeeded Pythagoras as a teacher and possibly taught Empedocles.

• Pythagoras was well educated, and he played the lyre throughout his lifetime, knew poetry and recited Homer.

• Pythagoras left Samos for Egypt in about 535 B.C. to study with the priests in the temples. Many of the practices of the society he created later in Italy can be traced to the beliefs of Egyptian priests, such as the codes of secrecy, striving for purity, and refusal to eat beans or to wear animal skins as clothing.

Life of Pythagoras• In 520 BC, Pythagoras, left Babylon and

returned to Samos, and sometime later began a school called The Semicircle. His methods of teaching were not popular with the leaders of Samos, and their desire for him to become involved in politics did not appeal to him, so he left.

• Pythagoras settled in Crotona, a Greek colony in southern Italy, about 518 BC, and founded a philosophical and religious school where his many followers lived and worked. The Pythagoreans lived by rules of behavior, including when they spoke, what they wore and what they ate. Pythagoras was the Master of the society, and the followers, both men and women, who also lived there, were known as mathematikoi.

Pythagoras Theorem

Pythagoras Theorem

Pythagoras, since the fourth century AD has commonly been given credit for discovering

the Pythagorean theorem, a theorem in geometry that

states that in a right-angled triangle the area of the

square on the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares of the other two sides—that

is, .

Pythagoras Theorem

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