Pythagorean History A Brief History of the Pythagorean Theorem Just Who Was This Pythagoras, Anyway? Pythagoras (569-500 B.C.E.) was born on the island of Samos in Greece, and did much traveling through Egypt, learning, among other things, mathematics. Not much more is known of his early years. Pythagoras gained his f

Famous ScientistsHome Top 100 Scientists List of Scientists Blog Pythagoras Pythagoras is someone most people have heard of, but he is an enigma. The trouble is trust. Can we trust what we read about him? Sadly, the answer is no. We can’t trust a lot of it, because if we did, we would have to believe he had god-

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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Search Primary Menu Skip to content A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Pythagoras (c. 570—c. 495 B.C.E) The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Pythagoras must have been one of the worlds greatest persons, but he wrote nothing, and it is hard to say how much of the doc

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Pythagoras of Samos , or simply in Ionian Greek ) was an Ionian Greek philosopher , mathematician , and has been credited as the founder of the movement called Pythagoreanism . Most of the information about Pythagoras was written down centuries after he lived, so very little reliable information is known about him. He