Greek philosopher Pythagoras played a crucial role in the birth of mathematics as we know it. He is probably most famous for the Pythagorean Theorem, which says the square of the hypotenuse (the ...

Greek philosopher and mathematician ... They avoided excess, sex (mostly), and picking up crumbs. It was taboo to write Pythagoras’ teachings down or tell non-followers about them.

An ancient Greek belief about the most pleasing combinations of musical notes – often attributed to the philosopher Pythagoras – doesn’t actually reflect the way people around the world ...

The tombs belong to the fourth century before Christ. Interest in the discovery has been heightened because the Greek philosopher Pythagoras was buried at Metapontum about 500 B. C., and ...

Even Pythagoras, whose triangles we navigate with ... In the 6th century BCE, the Greek alphabet used 24 letters. To make numbers, the Greeks added three more symbols (accounts differ as to ...

They used this mathematical know-how to divide up farmland – more than 1000 years before the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, with whom these ideas are associated. “They’re using a theoretical ...

The tablet proves Pythagorean triples were used 1,000 years before ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras was born. Listen to the podcast in Greek to find out more.