Pythagoras
Full Name-
Pythagoras
Born-
570 B.C
- It was said that he was the first man to call himself a philosopher ("lover of wisdom") and that he was the first to divide the globe into five climatic zones.
- Pythagoras continued to be regarded as a great philosopher throughout the Middle Ages and his philosophy had a major impact on scientists such as Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, and Isaac Newton.
- No authentic writings of Pythagoras have survived to the present day and almost nothing is known for certain about his life.
- According to a popular legend, after he discovered his which theorem(now called Pythagorous theorem), Pythagoras sacrificed an ox, or possibly even a whole hecatomb, to the gods. Cicero rejected this story as spurious because of the much more widely held belief that Pythagoras forbade blood sacrifices.
- Famous For-
- Pythagorous Theorem
- Pythagorean tuning and Pythagorean hammers
- First to identify the morning star and the evening star as the same celestial object.
Things named after Pythagoras-
- Pythagorean theorem
- Pythagorean triple
- Pythagoras (Crater)
- Pythagorean quadruple
- Pythagorean expectation
- Pythagorean field
- Pythagorean prime
- Pythagorean trigonometric identity
- Pythagorean means
- Pythagorean addition
- Pythagorean quadruple
- Pythagoras's constant
- Lute of Pythagoras
- Pythagoras tree
- Pythagorean comma
- Pythagorean tuning
- Pythagorean hammers
- Pythagorean interval