Mathematicians biography of pythagoras wikipedia
Mathematicians biography of pythagoras wikipedia
Biography of pythagoras theorem...
Pythagoras
| Born: c. 570 BC in on the island of Samos |
| Died: c. 495 BC (at about age 75) in Metapontum |
| Nationality: Greek |
| Famous For: Pythagorean Theorem |
Pythagoras was a Greek mathematician known for formulating the Pythagorean Theorem.
He was also a philosopher who taught that numbers were the essence of all things.
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He associated numbers with virtues, colors, music and other qualities. He also believed that the human soul is immortal and after death it moves into another living being, sometimes an animal.
The Pythagorean Theorem
Pythagoras believed the earth was round and that the sun, moon, and other planets had their own movements.
His beliefs eventually led to the Copernican theory of the universe.
The principles of the Pythagorean Theorem had already been known before they were formulated by Pythagoras. The Egyptians used a form of the Pythagorean Theorem to lay out their fields and the Greeks borrowed it from the Egyptians.
The theorem says that