Pythagoras Pythagoras was born around 569 B.C. in Samos, Ionia, a city in Greece. He died around 475 B.C. Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher, and mathematician. Pythagoras not only developed the theorem of A2+B2=C2, but he was also the first to create the music scale of today.
Pythagoras also developed the Pythagorean brotherhood. In this brotherhood that Pythagoras created, he was the head of the society with an inner circle of followers known as mathematikoi. The mathematikoi lived permanently with the society, had no personal possessions and were vegetarians. Pythagoras himself taught them all, and they had strict rules to go by. Some of his rules ranged from; "At its deepest level, reality is mathematical in nature, to that all brothers of the order should observe strict loyalty and secrecy"�. Both men and women were permitted to become members of the society, several of the Pythagorean women, later became famous philosophers.
English: Animated geometric proof of the Pythagora...
Italiano: Busto di Pitagora. Copia romana di origi...
English: Similar triangles for Pythagoras' theoremThe "outer circles"� of the society were known as the akousmatics. They lived in their own houses, only coming to the society during the day. They were allowed their own possessions, and were not required to be vegetarians.
Unluckily none of Pythagoras's writings from this research time have survived today. Nothing is actually known of Pythagoras's real work.
The school that Pythagoras attended practiced privacy, concealment, communalism, and socialism, this made it hard to distinguish between the work of Pythagoras and the work of one of his followers.
Pythagoras's school help to make math more advanced, which makes it possible to assume that most of the groups knowledge came from Pythagoras . Pythagoras was fascinated in the principals of mathematics, the concept of numbers, the concept of a triangle or other geometric figure, and the abstract idea of a proof. The Pythagorean having been brought up in the...