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lovers. When people hear the name Pythagoras today, they typically think of math class.

They think specifically of the Pythagorean theorem, which tells us that there is a geometrical

relation between the three sides of a right triangle. Some may take it further and associate the name with more than one mathematical discovery,

such as the existence of irrational numbers,

numbers that stretch on into infinite, unrepeating decimals, like pi,

or with the categorization of numbers as prime and perfect.

Some may even have a sense of him as a man, a great philosopher and mathematician, in Ionian

polymath from the Greek island of Seamus, founder of a movement of rational thinkers who, in practicing

Pythagoreanism, moved away from notions of divine influence and magic toward a more

scientific view of the world, whose phenomena can be observed and described and whose laws can be demonstrated.

These may also credit him with the discovery of musical harmony, but all may be surprised to learn

that very little is known about Pythagoras for certain, that sources about him come from long

after his death, and that he may not have actually been or done any of these things.

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