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Born: 570 BC
Nationality: Greek
Died At Age: 75
Born In: Samos
Famous As: Philosopher And Mathematician
Family:
Spouse/Ex-: Theano
Father: Mnesarchus
Mother: Pythais
Children: Arignote, Damo, Myia, Telauges
Died On: 495 BC
Place Of Death: Metapontum
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Pythagoras was an Ionian philosopher and mathematician, born in sixth century BC in Samos. Most of the information available today has been recorded a few centuries after his death and as a result, many of the available accounts contradict each other. However, this much is certain that he was born to a merchant from Tyre and had studied under various teachers since his early childhood. When he was around forty years old, he left Samos. Some say he went to Egypt to study under the temple priests and returned after fifteen years while others say that he went straight to Croton to open a school. Nonetheless, it is certain that his main place of activity was Croton and there he set up a brotherhood and made importantcontribution to mathematics, philosophy and music. His followers, known as Pythagoreans, maintained strict loyalty and secrecy. Another established fact is that Pythagoras travelled extensively. Some accounts also claim that he went to India to study under Hindu Brahmins. Contradiction also exists about his death; but there is unanimity that he was hounded and killed by his enemies. .
Childhood & Early Life
Pythagoras was born in the eastern Aegean island of Samos, Greece in 570 BC. It is believed that his mother, Pythias, was a native of the island while his father, Mnesarchus, was a merchant from Tyre (Lebanon), dealing in gems. It is also said that he had two or three siblings.
Pythagoras spent most of his early childhood at Samos. As he grew up, he began to accompany his father on his trading trips. It is believed that Mnesarchus once took him to Tyre, where he studied under scholars from Syria. It is possible that he might have also visited Italy during those early years.
Subsequently, Pythagoras studied extensively under different teachers. He learned poetry, could recite Homer and play the lyre. Apart from scholars from Syria, he also studied under wise men of Chaldea. Pherecydes of Syros was also one of his early teachers under whom he studied philosophy. .
At the age of eighteen, Pythagoras traveled to Miletus to meet Thales, a master of mathematics and astronomy. Although by then Thales had become too old to teach, the meeting was quite fruitful; it elicited in him an interest in science, mathematics and astronomy.
He must have also studied under Thales’ student Anaximander. The later works of Pythagoras show a striking similarity with the works of Anaximander. Both his astronomical and geometrical theories seem to have naturally developed from the theories of the elder philosopher.
In 535 BC, Pythagoras left for Egypt to study under the temple priests. Earlier Thales had also given him the same advice. However, according to other accounts, he went to Egypt to escape the tyranny of Polycrates, the then ruler of Samos.
Pythagoras lived in Egypt for around ten years. After completing the necessary rites he first gained admission into the temple of Diospolis and was accepted into priesthood. It is also believed that for some years he studied under the Egyptian priest Oenuphis of Heliopolis.
In 525 BC, Emperor Cambyses II of Persia conquered Egypt. Pythagoras was captured and taken as prisoner to Babylon. Here he quickly associated himself to the Persians priests known as the magi and began to study mathematics and mathematical sciences as well as music under them.
In 522 BC, Cambyses II of Persia died under mysterious circumstances and Polycrates, the tyrannical ruler of Somas, was also killed. These events offered Pythagoras an opportunity to return to Somas, which did in 520 BC.
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Pythagoras of Samos[a] (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)[b] was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, Western philosophy. Knowledge of his life is clouded by legend, but he appears to have been the son of Mnesarchus, a gem-engraver on the island of Samos. Modern scholars disagree regarding Pythagoras's education and influences, but they do agree that, around 530 BC, he travelled to Croton in southern Italy, where he founded a school in which initiates were sworn to secrecy and lived a communal, ascetic lifestyle. This lifestyle entailed a number of dietary prohibitions, traditionally said to have included vegetarianism, although modern scholars doubt that he ever advocated for complete vegetarianism.
Achievements
1) Many scientists refer to him as the advanced and pure mathematician . 2) Pythagorean theorem a theorem in geometry that states that in a right angled triangle the square of the hypotenuse the side opposite the right angle c is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides , b and a that is a² + b² = c³ .
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