Pythagoras
OriginGreece
Era570 BC
SchoolPre-Socratic
About Pythagoras
More than a mathematician, he founded a religious and philosophical community. Believed in reincarnation and the transmigration of souls. His followers were vegetarians and refused to eat beans. Numbers are the ultimate reality and the universe is mathematical harmony. May not have actually proven the theorem named after him.
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