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570 BCE
Pythagoras Born
Pythagoras Born - Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of the Pythagoreanism movement. His political and religious teachings were extremely influential in Magna Graecia and exerted a profound impact on the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, Western philosophy. -
Period: 570 BCE to 495 BCE
Life of Pythagoras
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530 BCE
Pythagorean Theorem
Pythagorean Theorem -
Since at least the first century BC, Pythagoras has commonly been given credit for discovering the Pythagorean theorem, a theorem in geometry that states that "in a right-angled triangle the square of the hypotenuse is equal [to the sum of] the squares of the two other sides." -
529 BCE
Founded School of Pythagoreanism
At Croton, he founded the philosophical school of Pythagoreanism, whose practitioners adhered to a strict, disciplined way of life. Pythagoras acquired great political influence in Magna Graecia; later biographers tell fantastical stories of the effects of his eloquent speech in leading the people of Croton to abandon their luxurious and corrupt way of life and devote themselves to the purer system which he came to introduce.
