PYTHAGORAS OF SAMOS Pythagoras of Samos‚ more commonly known as Pythagoras is recognized as the world’s first mathematician. Pythagoras’ image is mysterious because none of his writings are published‚ and the ‘society he led‚ half religious and half scientific‚ followed a code of secrecy’ (O’Connor and Robertson‚ 1993). He was born c575 BC in Samos‚ Greece‚ and was killed in c495 BC. Details about Pythagoras can be found in early biographical writings who would write of him having ‘divine powers’
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ANAXIMANDER Anaximander (610 BCE - 546 BCE) was a Milesian School Pre-Socratic Greek Philosopher. Like most of the Pre-Socratics‚ very little is known of Anaximander’s life. He was born‚ presumably in 610 BCE‚ in Ionia‚ the present day Turkish west coast‚ and lived in Miletus where he died in 546 BCE. He was of the Milesian school of thought and‚ while it is still debated among Pre-Socratic scholars‚ most assert that he was a student of Thales and agree that‚ at the very least‚ he was influenced
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13 March 2014 Early Philosophers “Pre-Socratic” or “Mythopoeic” thinkers? The Ancient Greek philosophers played a pivotal role in the shaping of the western philosophical tradition. The Ancient Greek philosophical tradition broke away from a mythological approach to explaining the world‚ and it initiated an approach based on reason and evidence. Initially concerned with explaining the entire cosmos (the universe seen as a well-ordered whole)‚ the Pre-Socratic philosophers strived to identify its
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The Pre-Socratic Philosophers | "Pre-Socratic" is the expression commonly used to describe those Greek thinkers who lived and wrote between 600 and 400 B.C. It was the Pre-Socratics who attempted to find universal principles which would explain the natural world from its origins to man’s place in it. Although Socrates died in 399 B.C.‚ the term "Pre-Socratic" indicates not so much a chronological limit‚ but rather an outlook or range of interests‚ an outlook attacked by both Protagoras (a Sophist)
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Pythagoras of Samos is often described as the first pure mathematician. He is an extremely important figure in the development of mathematics yet we know little about his achievements. There is nothing that is truly accurate pertaining to Pythagoras’s writings. Today Pythagoras is certainly a mysterious figure. Little is known of Pythagoras’s childhood. Pythagoras’s father was Mnesarchus‚ and his mother was Pythais. Mnesarchus was a merchant who came from Tyre. Pythais was a native of Samos. As
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How We Use the Pythagorean Theorem in Everyday Life First‚ let’s discuss the inventor of the theorem before how we use it. Pythagoras of Samos is a very odd fellow but is very well known despite not have written anything in his lifetime so what we know about him comes from Historians and Philosophers. Though we know he was a Greek philosopher and mathematician mainly known for the Pythagorean Theorem that we all learned in 6th grade. (a2 + b2 = c2). His theorem states that that the square of
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Philosopher Pythagoras‚ a famous Greek philosopher‚ born around 580 B.C.‚ was born on the Turkish coast on the island of Samos. It is thought that he may have spent his youth traveling Egypt and many other places‚ gaining knowledge as he went. He spent his philosophical years in southern Italy‚ in the city of Crotona. Pythagoras was influenced by mathematics and science‚ and both were the basis for his religious and philosophical theories ("Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"‚ 2011). Pythagoras established
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considered whole numbers to be their rulers and that all quantities could be explained by whole numbers and their ratios. Along came Hippasus who discovered irrational numbers which consequently meant he was drowned. Hippasus was the disciple of Pythagoras; he was of course famous for his discovery of irrational numbers and more specifically his discovery of √2. There are many methods out there that prove the irrationality of √2. However this is the one that Hippasus used: The proof of the irrationality
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Pythagoras and Parmenides on the One and the Many Pythagoras and Parmenides were two of the most important pre Socrates philosophers to come Out of Greece‚ Pythagoras actually coined the term Philiosphisa (love of wisdom) they Influenced the thoughts of some of the greatest philosophers of all time such as Plato and Aristotle. They put forward the theory of the one and the many a theory that which was the Search for something unified and permanent that persists through chaos and change.
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PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY Introduction As early Greek civilization grew more complex (c. 500 b.c.e.)‚ mythology and religion began to develop into philosophy (and later into science). As part of this development‚ a new kind of thinker emerged known as a sophos‚ from the Greek word for “wise.” These “wise men‚” and they were almost exclusively men‚ asked increasingly sophisticated questions about all sorts of things‚ especially natural processes and the origins and essence of life. Although mythology
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