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Pythagoras

Pythagoras of Samos was a Greek philosopher responsible for important developments in mathematics, astronomy and the theory of music. He left Samos because of the tyrant who ruled there and went to southern Italy about 532 BC. He founded a philosophical and religious school in Corton that had many followers. Although the theorem now known as Pythagoras’s Theorem was known to the Babylonians 1000 years earlier he may have been the first to prove it. Of his actual work nothing is known. His school practiced secrecy and communalism making it hard to distinguish between the work of Pythagoras and that of his followers. His school made pit standing contributions to mathematics. Pythagoreans believed that all relations could

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