Who was Pythagoras?

About Pythagoras

• Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher and mathematician.
• Pythagoras lived during the 6th century B.C. on the island of Samos, Greece.
• He is commonly said to be the first pure mathematician who proposed that everything is a number.
• He is best known in the modern day for the Pythagorean Theorem.

Pythagoras’ Theorem

• It states that in a right-angled triangle, the square of the length of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides.
• This formula has been applied to measuring distance and space as, for example, in planning and executing the construction of a building.

Pythagorean Brotherhood

• Pythagoras founded a secretive religious and philosophical community known as the Pythagorean Brotherhood.
• The members, known as Pythagoreans, followed a strict set of rules and beliefs, including the idea that mathematics and numbers held mystical and spiritual significance.
• It was here he taught that “the whole cosmos is a scale and a number.

Q1: What is Babylonia?

Babylonia was an ancient kingdom located in Mesopotamia, in what is now modern-day Iraq. It was one of the most prominent and influential civilizations of the ancient Near East, with a rich history that spanned several millennia. The city of Babylon was founded more than 4,000 years ago as a small port town on the Euphrates River.
 

Source: Pythagoras did not discover famed theorem! Babylonian tablet unearths plagiarism

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