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Jiansel Guzmán Santiago
Proyect on Pythagoras
Mr. Wellington Gomez
Math Class
11-R

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- Who Pythagoras is.
- Image of Pythagoras.
- What Pythagoras went trough.
- His teachings.
- Video with more explanation on Pythagoras.
- What we learn.
- References.

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Pythagoras, also referred to as the purest mathemathician, was well educated and interested in things like philosophy, mathematics and music. He also played the lyre his whole lifetime and liked to recite homer.

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According to historians, approximately 569 b. C. - 475 b. C. (94 years old)

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Pythagoras had left Samos to go to Egypt with a goal of studying with priests in the temples.

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When Persia invaded Egypt, Pythagoras was taken as a prisoner and got moved to Babylon. Here he met the Magoi, priests who taught him sacred rites.

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At the time, Pythagoras was already freed from prison in Babylon. He returned back to Samos and after began school called The Semicircle. Even so, he ended up leaving because his teaching methods weren’t popular with the leaders.

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Pythagoras moved to Crotona, a Greek colony, and founded a philosophical and religious school for him and his many followers. The Pythagoreans lived by rules of behaviour that reflected on what they said or even wore.

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Pythagoras studied odd and even numbers, triangular numbers, and perfect numbers. His society also contributed to our understanding of angles, triangles, areas, proportion, polygons, and polyhedra.

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- The sum of the angles of a triangle is equal to two right angles.
- The theorem of Pythagoras: for a right-angled triangle the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.
- Constructing figures of a given area and geometrical algebra.

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- The discovery of irrational numbers is attributed to the Pythagoreans, but seems unlikely to have been the idea of Pythagoras because it does not align with his philosophy the all things are numbers, since number to him meant the ratio of two whole numbers.

- The five regular solids (tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, icosahedron, dodecahedron). It is believed that Pythagoras knew how to construct the first three but not last two.

- Pythagoras taught that Earth was a sphere in the center of the Universe, that the planets, stars, and the universe were spherical because the sphere was the most perfect solid figure. Pythagoras recognized that the morning star was the same as the evening star, Venus.

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- All things are numbers
- The soul resides on the brain, and it’s immortal
- Numbers have personalities, strengths, and weaknesses.
- Certain symbols have a mystical significance.

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The information of Pythagoras' death varies. Some believe he may have been killed by an angry mob, others to have been caught up in a war between the Agrigentum and the Syracusans and killed by the Syracusans, or to even have been burned out of his school in Crotona and then went to Metapontum where he starved himself to death. At least two of the stories include a scene where Pythagoras refuses to trample a crop of bean plants in order to escape, and because of this, he is caught.

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This whole timeline gives us a slight summary about the things Pythagoras did and how he came to be. Many people, myself included, have heard about the Pythagoras Theorem but most likely don’t know who the man was. This helped me undertake better who Pythagoras was and what contributions he brought to the world of mathematics.

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Math Open Reference. (n.d.). Biography of Pythagoras - math word definition - Math Open Reference. Retrieved March 28, 2022, from https://www.mathopenref.com/pythagoras.html