Pythagoras

[ pi-thag-er-uhs ]

noun

1. c582–c500 b.c., Greek philosopher, mathematician, and religious reformer.

Pythagoras

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/ paɪˈθæɡərəs /

noun

1. a deep crater in the NE quadrant of the moon, 136 kilometres in diameter

Pythagoras

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/ paɪˈθæɡərəs /

noun

1. Pythagoras?580 bc?500 bcMGreekPHILOSOPHY: philosopherSCIENCE: mathematician ?580–?500 bc , Greek philosopher and mathematician. He founded a religious brotherhood, which followed a life of strict asceticism and greatly influenced the development of mathematics and its application to music and astronomy

Pythagoras

/ pĭ-thăg′ər-əs /

1. Greek philosopher and mathematician who theorized that numbers constitute the essence of all natural things. He developed the Pythagorean theorem and was one of the first to apply mathematical order to observations of the stars.

Example Sentences

In the ever-­growing museum of the internet, one can move smoothly from images from the James Webb Space Telescope through diagrams explaining Pythagoras’s philosophy on the music of the spheres to a YouTube tutorial on blues guitar soloing.

From MIT Technology Review

Otherwise, they actually undershot their expected record according to Pythagoras.

From FiveThirtyEight

Pythagoras, we are told, was accustomed to swear by the number four, μα την τετρακτον.

From Project Gutenberg

“I think it was Pythagoras who declared that the woes of men are the work of their own hands,” said the Professor.

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Pythagoras was the first person who introduced measures and weights among the Greeks.

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Thus Anaximander, an original but vague thinker, prepared the way for Pythagoras.

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It is not certain when the discovery of Pythagoras was extended to the non-diatonic scales.

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