PYTHAGORAS

ABOUT
PYTHAGORAS
Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and has been
credited as the founder of the movement called Pythagoreanism. He was born in 570 bc
and died in 470 bc. Most of the information about Pythagoras was written down centuries
after he lived, so very little reliable information is known about him. He was born on the
island of Samos, and traveled, visiting Egypt and Greece, and maybe India, and in 520
BC returned to Samos. Around 530 BC, he moved to Croton, in Magna Graecia, and
there established some kind of school or guild.

FAMILY
According to some accounts Pythagoras married Theano, and it has been said that she was first
his pupil, a lady of Croton. According to Mary Ritter Beard, Theano told Hippodamus of Thurium
(may be Hippodamus of Miletus, who according to Aristotle planned the city of Thurium in 440
BC), the treatise On Virtue, she wrote, contains the doctrine of the golden mean.

MATHS
The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this
subject, but saturated with it what they fancied. The principles of mathematics were the principles
of all things.
Since the fourth century AD, Pythagoras has commonly been given credit for discovering the
Pythagorean theorem, a theorem in geometry that states that in a right-angled triangle the area
of the square on the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the
areas of the squares of the other two sidesthat is, A squared + B squared = C squared