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, scientist and mathematician, politician and lawgiver, and...

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 Crotona in southern Italy. There he founded a...

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 Pythagoras and the early school than seemed to be the case a...

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, musical theory, and in the world's history. However, little...

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 century. Doxographical information about them can be...

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 mathematician; nor did the members of the society he founded,...

. Late sixth century BC. Born in Samos, he migrated to south Italy and founded Pythagorean ‘brotherhood’ whose doctrines, even centuries later, were often attributed to him. Traditionally he was the first to see the connexion between...

(born &circa; 580 &BC;, Samos, Ionia—died &circa; 500, Metapontum, Lucania) Greek philosopher and mathematician. He established a community of followers in Croton who adhered to a way of life he prescribed. His school of philosophy reduced all...

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 relationships. He and his followers established the close...

Pythagoras of Samos (Greek: ΠυθαγÏρας; between 580 and 572 BC–between 500 and 490 BC) was an Ionian (Greek) philosopher[1] and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He is often revered as a great mathematician, mystic and...