{"id":15620,"date":"2023-10-08T07:43:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T02:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15620"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:37:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T13:07:42","slug":"who-was-pythagoras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/who-was-pythagoras\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Pythagoras?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Pythagoras<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Pythagoras was a <strong>Greek philosopher and mathematician.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Pythagoras lived during the <strong>6th century B.C<\/strong>. on the <strong>island of Samos, Greece.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He is commonly said to be the <strong>first pure mathematician who proposed that everything is a number.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He is best known in the modern day for the <strong>Pythagorean Theorem<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Pythagoras\u2019 Theorem<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It states that <strong>in a right-angled triangle, the square of the length of the hypotenuse <\/strong>(the side opposite the right angle)<strong> is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This formula has been <strong>applied to measuring distance and space <\/strong>as, for example, in planning and executing the construction of a building.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Pythagorean Brotherhood<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Pythagoras founded <strong>a secretive<\/strong> religious and philosophical community known as the Pythagorean Brotherhood.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>members, known as Pythagoreans<\/strong>, followed a <strong>strict set of rules and beliefs,<\/strong> including the <strong>idea that mathematics and numbers held mystical and spiritual significance.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was here he <strong>taught that &#8220;the whole cosmos is a scale and a number<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Babylonia?<\/h3>\n<p>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.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/education-today\/news\/story\/pythagoras-did-not-discover-famed-theorem-babylonian-tablet-unearths-plagiarism-2445883-2023-10-07\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Pythagoras did not discover famed theorem! Babylonian tablet unearths plagiarism<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher and mathematician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}