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We have no known texts by Pythagoras, but he founded one of the most influential and devoutly followed schools in pre-Socratic Greek thought. |
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Pythagoras, "the father of numbers," was born on the Island of Samos off the Greek coast. At a very early age he travelled to Mesopotamia and Egypt where he undertook his basic studies and eventually founded his first school. Political unrest subsequently necessitated a move to Crotona? in Southern Italy where he founded his second University. The doctrines of this cultural center were bound by very strict rules of conduct. His school was open to men and women students alike, and discriminatory conduct was forbidden. His students included those of all races, colours, religions, and financial or social standing. History has documented that the doctrines of the Pythagorean school, based in Mathematics, Music and Astronomy, have had a profound effect on Philosophy throughout the ages - even to the present day. Pythagoras believed that mathematics could exist without music or astronomy but mathematical principals were universal and implicit in all things; thus nothing could exist without numbers. His teachings encompassed not only the investigation into the self but into the whole of the known Universe of his time. Pythagoras is widely regarded as the founder of modern mathematics, musical theory, philosophy and the science of health(hygiene). There are no known surviving texts by Pythagoras, but he founded one of the most influential and devoutly followed schools in pre-Socratic Greek thought. |
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Pythagoras is sometimes considered to be the pupil of Anaximander and is reputed by very early sources to have visited Thales in his twenties, just before Thales died. There is no account of the specifics of the meeting, other than the report that Thales recommended that Pythagoras travel to Egypt in order to further his philosophical and mathematical training. There is certainly evidence that the Egyptians had advanced further than the Greeks of their time in Mathematics and Astronomy and it is now widely believed that Egyptians used the Pythagorean Theorem in some of their architectural projects before the 6th century B.C. |
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Pythagoras is sometimes considered to be the pupil of Anaximander and is reputed by very early sources to have visited Thales in his twenties, just before Thales died. There is no account of the specifics of the meeting, other than the report that Thales recommended that Pythagoras travel to Egypt in order to further his philosophical and mathematical training. There is certainly evidence that the Egyptians had advanced further than the Greeks of their time in Mathematics and Astronomy and it is now widely believed that Egyptians? used the Pythagorean Theorem in some of their architectural projects before the 6th century B.C. |
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