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. So, as in the case of Socrates, information about his...

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 the Pythagorean theorem and discovered irrational...

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 the universe. Born on the island of Samos,...

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 of numbers. However, the majority of historians, who...

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 of numbers. However, the majority of historians, who...