Pythagoras Pythagoras must have been one of the world’s greatest men. However‚ he wrote nothing and it is unknown how much of the doctrine of Pythagoras is due to the founder of society and how much is later development. Sometimes he is represented as a man of science‚ a mathematician‚ and even as a preacher of mystical doctrines. None of these traditional views‚ however‚ should be rejected‚ for he contributed his genius in each field. Pythagoras lived from about 569 BC to about 475 BC. His father
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used the Pythagorean Theorem‚ many know little of the man who proved it. Pythagoras was born in 570 BC in Samos‚ Greece. His father‚ Mnesarchus‚ was a merchant from Tyre who traveled abroad. It is rumored that Pythagoras traveled with his father during his early years and was introduced to several influential teachers‚ including Thales who was a famous Greek philosopher. Several years and many countries later‚ Pythagoras found himself in Egypt. It was here that he studied at the temple of Diospolis
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The Greek philosopher‚ scientist‚ and religious teacher Pythagoras developed a school of thought that accepted the passage of the soul into another body and established many influential mathematical and philosophical theories. Early life Born on the island of Samos‚ off Greece‚ in the Mediterranean Sea‚ Pythagoras was the son of Mnesarchus. Little is known about his early life. After studying in Greece‚ he fled to southern Italy to escape the harsh rule of Polycrates (died c. 522 B.C
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Pythagoras of Samos is often described as the first pure mathematician. He is an extremely important figure in the development of mathematics yet we know relatively little about his mathematical achievements. Unlike many later Greek mathematicians‚ where at least we have some of the books which they wrote‚ we have nothing of Pythagoras’s writings. The society which he led‚ half religious and half scientific‚ followed a code of secrecy which certainly means that today Pythagoras is a mysterious figure
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Pythagoras Of Samos Pythagros’s Family Born - Approximately 569 BC‚ Samos Greece Died -Approximately 500 - 475 BC‚ Metapontum Italy Pythagoras is often referred to as the first pure mathematician. He was born on the island of Samos‚ Greece in 569 BC. Various writings place his death between 500 BC and 475 BC in Metapontum‚ Lucania‚ Italy. His father‚ Mnesarchus‚ was a gem merchant. His mother’s name was Pythais. Pythagoras had two or three brothers. Some historians
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A mathematician is a person whose primary area study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with logic‚ space‚ transformations‚ numbers and more general ideas which encompass these concepts. Some notable mathematicians include Archimedes of Syracuse‚ Leonhard Paul Euler‚ Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss‚ Johann Bernoulli‚ Jacob Bernoulli‚ Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī‚ Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann‚ Gottfried Leibniz‚ Euclid of Alexandria‚ Jules Henri Poincaré‚ Srinivasa Ramanujan
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Research Paper: Pythagoras Today‚ the Pythagorean Theorem is a mathematical idea studied in classrooms all over the world. It was developed hundreds of years ago by Pythagoras‚ a Greek man‚ who was not only a mathematician‚ but a philosopher‚ a scientist‚ and a religious leader as well. In his lifetime‚ Pythagoras discovered and developed many new ways of thinking‚ and his teachings attracted followers from all over the ancient world. Pythagoras was a brilliant thinker who made many revolutionary
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Pythagoras was known as the first mathematician. In his early life Pythagoras’s father was Mnesarchus‚ while his mother was Pythais and she was a native of Samos. In addition he had to brothers. Mnesarchus was a merchant who came from Lyre‚ and there is an account that he brought corn to Samos at a time of famine and was granted citizenship of Samos as a mark of gratitude. In addition he had to brother. All accounts of his physical appearance are likely to be fictitious except the description of
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Daren Greer Honors Algebra 2 5th hour 5/12/2013 The Life of Pythagoras Pythagoras lived around 570-495 B.C.. He was born on the island of Samos‚ a greek island in the aegean sea.His father‚ Mnesarchus‚ was a gem engraver‚ and his mother‚ Pythias‚ is unknown . Due to the fact that most of his life was wrote about many years after his death most of the information is unreliable‚ but it is believed that during pythagoras’s younger years he traveled the land in search of knowledge
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describe the numbers 10 and 100‚ making it easier to describe larger numbers. Geometry started to receive great attention and served in surveying land‚ cities and streets. The Babylonians discovered the Pythagorean theorem. They understood it before Pythagoras was even born. The Babylonians also found out the approximate value of r^2. In India‚ Aryabhata calculated the number p to its fourth decimal point‚ managed to correctly forecast eclipses and‚ when solving astronomical problems‚ used sinusoidal
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