Pythagorean Theorem Project
Pythagoras History
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Born approximately 569 BCE in Samos Greece.
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Died around 500 - 475 BCE in Metapontum Italy.
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He loved to learn and travel.
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He studied in Egypt with the priests in 535 BCE.
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He was taken prisoner 10 years later when Persia invaded Egypt.
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He got out and went back to Greece in 520 BCE.
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This is where he founded a school called The Semicircle.
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This school was devoted to studying philosophy and religion.
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His followers, called the Pythagoreans, lived and worked at the school.
Pythagorean Beliefs
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All things are numbers.
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The soul resides in the brain and can be purified with mathematics and music.
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Numbers have personalities.
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The world depends on the interaction of opposites.
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Certain symbols have a mystical significance.
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All members of the society are strictly loyal and keep everything a secret.
Pythagorean Discoveries
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Sum of the angles of a triangle is two right angles (or 180°).
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Pythagorean Theorem.
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Constructing geometric figures to solve equations.
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Irrational numbers.
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Five regular solids.
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Earth was a sphere in the center of the universe.
