#history
Pythagoras.
The ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras ( born 370 BC) was both a mathematician and a mystic.
Pythagoras liked to call
himself a lover of wisdom, or
philo sophos—a philosopher. He is believed to have traveled
widely to countries including Egypt in search of knowledge.
Pythagoras’s ideas fall into the categories of mathematics and
mysticism, although he did not see the two as being different.
He devised many of the cornerstones of geometry, including the
Pythagorean theorem and thought that the first element was “number.”
Pythagoras made important advances in astronomy regarding
the movements of the planets. He believed the universe was put
together along mathematically precise lines and that mathematics
and music were interrelated.
