Pythagoras
Mathematician and Philosopherc. 582 B.C.E.–c. 500B.C.E.
Considered a mathematician, but foremost a philosopher, Pythagoras was a very important figure in mathematics, astronomy, musi...
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Pythagoras
PYTHAGORAS. The ancient tradition presents different images of Pythagoras (c. 570 BCE–c. 500 BCE) that hardly square with one another: philosopher and initiator of rational inquiry, ...
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Pythagoras
c. 550-480 B.C.
Greek philosopher and mathematician who founded a philosophical and religious movement based on the belief that all natural systems are determined by mystical numerical rela...
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Pythagoras
569?-475? B.C.
Greek Philosopher and Mathematician
Despite the fact that he is famous for the discovery of the theorem that bears his name, Pythagoras did not view himself primarily as a ma...
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Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism [addendum 1]
Scholarship on Pythagoras and early Pythagoreanism has undergone a revolutionary change in recent decades. On the one hand, we know much less about Pythagora...
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Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism [addendum 2]
Ideas of Pythagoras and his school (including Philolaos) became known to the Islamic and to a lesser degree to the Jewish world since the end of the ninth ce...
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Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism
Pythagoras was an Ionian Greek born on the island of Samos, probably about 570 BCE. His dislike of the policies of the Samian tyrant Polycrates caused him to immigrate to...
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The Greek philosopher, scientist, and religious teacher Pythagoras (ca. 575-ca. 495 BC) evolved a school of thought that accepted the transmigration of souls and established number as the principle in...
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So little is known about the life of Pythagoras that some historians have suggested that such a person did not exist and that the name was for a society of people who studied the mystical properties o...
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So little is known about the life of Pythagoras that some historians have suggested that such a person did not exist and that the name was for a society of people who studied the mystical properties o...
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Pythagoras' wide-ranging interests in mathematics, music, and astronomy mark him as a seminal figure in early western civilization's intellectual development. In the realm of mathematics, he developed...
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As is true of another enormously charismatic and influential ancient Greek philosopher -- Socrates -- Pythagoras seems to have written nothing; certainly nothing reliably attributed to him survives. S...
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In the following essay, Fuller summarizes the contributions of Pythagoras to the fields of music, mathematics, medicine, and astronomy. He notes the influence of the Pythagorean ideas of duality and t...
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In the following excerpt, Guthrie highlights evidence of Pythagoras's teachings and life in the works of his contemporaries and other important figures in the history of ancient Greece.
The his...
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In the following excerpt, De Vogel surveys modern criticism of Pythagoras, especially of his presumed dual role as a religious leader and as a scientist-philosopher.
1. the Problem
We have all grown u...
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In the following excerpt, Hussey examines evidence of the life of Pythagoras and the immediate impact of his thought on Graeco-Roman medicine, mathematics, astronomy, music, and philosophy.
'Th...
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In the following essay, Heninger recounts perceptions of Pythagoras and his thought from the Renaissance.
In the development of Western philosophy as the renaissance saw it the sect of Pythagoras had ...
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In the following essay, Kahn outlines the critical debate surrounding Pythagoras and his contributions to ancient Greek philosophy, examining the doctrines generally attributed to him and the evidence...
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In the following essay, Barnes analyzes Pythagorean arguments for the immortality and transmigration of the soul.
(a) Gi; (a) ipse Dixit =~ Sipse Dixit
The ancient historians of philosophy distinguish...
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In the following excerpt, Fideler discusses the significant elements of Pythagoras's thought and assesses the influence of these ideas in the present era.
It has been suggested, by Alfred North...
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In the following essay, McKirahan presents an overview of Pythagorean thought on issues of religion, mathematics, number theory, and cosmology, citing contemporaneous sources as evidence for his state...
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There have been countless mathematicians whose dedication and consistent effort has impacted the area of mathematics, of which is Pythagoras of Samos. The Book, Ancient Science Through the Golden Age...
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Pythagoras is known as one of the world's first pure mathematicians. He is also considered one of the founding fathers of Geometry.
Pythagoras of Samos was born sometime around 569 BC. The society ...
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Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism [addendum 1]
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