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    Pythagoras of Samos (Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας; c. 570 – c. 495 BC) was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath, and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism...
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    In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem or Pythagoras' theorem is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry between the three sides of a right triangle...
    92 KB (12,566 words) - 06:51, 6 September 2024
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    and around the teachings and beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans. Pythagoras established the first Pythagorean community in...
    78 KB (10,021 words) - 01:56, 18 October 2024
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    Verses Of Pythagoras And Other Pythagorean Fragments. Theosophical Publishing House. Joost-Gaugier, Christiane L. (2007). Measuring Heaven: Pythagoras and his...
    13 KB (1,670 words) - 02:26, 25 October 2024
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    The School of Athens (category Cultural depictions of Pythagoras)
    subtle details or allusions; among those commonly identified are Socrates, Pythagoras, Archimedes, Heraclitus, Averroes, and Zarathustra. Additionally, Italian...
    29 KB (3,120 words) - 14:43, 31 October 2024
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    practice. The square root of two is occasionally called Pythagoras's number or Pythagoras's constant. In ancient Roman architecture, Vitruvius describes...
    40 KB (5,831 words) - 03:33, 1 November 2024
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    Híppasos; c. 530 – c. 450 BC) was a Greek philosopher and early follower of Pythagoras. Little is known about his life or his beliefs, but he is sometimes credited...
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  • Donald in Mathmagic Land (category Cultural depictions of Pythagoras)
    himself in ancient Greece, where Pythagoras and his contemporaries are discovering these same relationships. Pythagoras (on the harp), a flute player, and...
    14 KB (1,436 words) - 01:33, 13 September 2024
  • The Pythagoras tree is a plane fractal constructed from squares. Invented by the Dutch mathematics teacher Albert E. Bosman in 1942, it is named after...
    6 KB (617 words) - 18:59, 12 October 2023
  • Pythagoras of Laconia was an ancient Greek athlete listed by Eusebius of Caesarea as a victor in the stadion race of the 16th Olympiad (716 BC). He was...
    1,013 bytes (95 words) - 08:44, 22 September 2021
  • BC Pythagorean philosopher. She has been called the wife or student of Pythagoras, although others see her as the wife of Brontinus. Her place of birth...
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  • was, according to surviving sources, Pythagoras’ teacher while a priestess at Delphi. In the biography of Pythagoras in his Lives and Opinions of Eminent...
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    tradition and the most outstanding figure in the Pythagorean school. Pythagoras developed a school of philosophy that was dominated by both mathematics...
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    attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras (570–495 BC). It is also called the Table of Pythagoras in many languages (for example French, Italian...
    29 KB (1,369 words) - 02:48, 31 October 2024
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    that the Pythagoreans or Pythagoras himself authored early Orphic works; alternately, later philosophers believed that Pythagoras was an initiate of Orphism...
    34 KB (4,004 words) - 07:37, 29 October 2024
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    traditional numerology. For example, in his 1997 book Numerology: Or What Pythagoras Wrought (Dudley 1997), mathematician Underwood Dudley uses the term to...
    25 KB (2,773 words) - 13:36, 29 October 2024
  • Pythagoras of Samos (Greek: Πυθαγόρας ο Σάμιος), as a youth, won the men’s boxing event at the ancient Olympic Games. During the 48th Olympiad, Pythagoras...
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    Pythagorean tuning (category Pythagoras)
    named, and has been widely misattributed, to Ancient Greeks, notably Pythagoras (sixth century BC) by modern authors of music theory. Ptolemy, and later...
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  • Atlantis (TV series) (category Cultural depictions of Pythagoras)
    is given shelter by a pair of unlucky and largely unemployed locals: Pythagoras — a young intellectual who has yet to uncover his theorem — and the ex-prize...
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  • ditonic comma), named after the ancient mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras, is the small interval (or comma) existing in Pythagorean tuning between...
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