Pythagoras of Samos [a] (Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας; c. 570 – c. 495 BC) [b] was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath, and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, Western philosophy.

Mar 26, 2025 · Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher and mathematician. He seems to have become interested in philosophy when he was quite young. As part of his education, when he was about age 20 he apparently visited the philosophers Thales Anaximander on the island of Miletus. Later he founded his famous school at Croton in Italy. What was Pythagoras known for?

Feb 23, 2005 · Pythagoras, one of the most famous and controversial ancient Greek philosophers, lived from ca. 570 to ca. 490 BCE. He spent his early years on the island of Samos, off the coast of modern Turkey. At the age of forty, however, he emigrated to the city of Croton in southern Italy and most of his philosophical activity occurred there.

May 23, 2019 · Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher whose teachings emphasized immortality of the soul and reincarnation. He taught that the concept of "number" cleared the mind and allowed for the understanding of reality.

Pythagoras was a Greek mathematician known for formulating the Pythagorean Theorem. He was also a philosopher who taught that numbers were the essence of all things. He associated numbers with virtues, colors, music and other qualities.

The Greek philosopher, scientist, and religious teacher Pythagoras developed a school of thought that accepted the passage of the soul into another body and established many influential mathematical and philosophical theories.

Mar 23, 2022 · Born in Samos in around 570 B.C, Pythagoras is commonly said to be the first pure mathematician who proposed that everything is a number. Although he is most famous for his mathematical theorem,...

Pythagoras was a classical Greek mathematician and philosopher. He was considered to be the founder of the movement called Pythagoreanism. A lot of his work was stored in the form of written discourse centuries after he lived.

Jun 8, 2018 · Pythagoras (c.580–500 bc), Greek philosopher; known as Pythagoras of Samos. Pythagoras sought to interpret the entire physical world in terms of numbers, and founded their systematic and mystical study; he is best known for the theorem of the right-angled triangle.

Sep 28, 2023 · Pythagoras of Samos, also simply known as Pythagoras, was an Ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician known for his contributions to the advancement of Hellenistic arithmetic, geometry and mathematics and for his influence on both Plato and Aristotle.