3/12/2016:
Pythagoras
- From the island of Samos, 532 BC.
- Founded a religion - main tenets were the transmigration of souls
- Pythogoreanism was a movement of reform in Orphism.
- A pure mathematician - deductive reasoning.
- The greatest discovery - right angled triangle. a^2 + b^2 = c^2, 3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2.
- Euclid took it to geometry
- Established geometry by later Greeks.
- Combination of mathematics and theology started with Pythogoras
- unlike Asiatic religion
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