pythagoras in English

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circa 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.

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1. 23 The first important Greeks astronomer was Pythagoras.

2. Indefinite dyad, monism, dualism, neoplatonism, plotinus, plato, pythagoras, dualism, dyad, Aoristos dyad Collection opensource Language English

3. By Pythagoras' theorem, the hypotenuse, or sloping side of the rep-5 triangle, has a length of √5.

4. A Pythagorean field is a field with Pythagoras number 1: that is, every sum of squares is already a square.

5. According to legend, Pythagoras traveled to Egypt to learn mathematics, geometry, and astronomy from Egyptian priests.

6. He pretended to show how an uneducated slave boy could be led to prove Pythagoras' theorem for doubling the square.

7. 17 He pretended to show how an uneducated slave boy could be led to prove Pythagoras' theorem for doubling the square.

8. 12 Among the Greek philosophers we find that Pythagoras,[www.Sentencedict.com] Plato and their followers believed in this theory of Metempsychosis or Transmigration of souls.

9. Theophrastus et fere Graeci princepsque Pythagoras caulem eius Cubitalem et saepe duum cubitorum, foliis porri silvestris, anthericum vocavere, radicem vero, id est bulbos, asphodelum

10. Aristarchus was born in about the year 310 BC, probably on the Greek island of Samos, the same island Pythagoras was born on 260 years earlier

11. In algebra, a Pythagorean field is a field in which every sum of two squares is a square: equivalently it has Pythagoras number equal to 1.

12. The belief that natural objects, phenomena, and the universe itself have desires and intentions (in the philosophies of Plato and Pythagoras) the hypothesis that there is an immaterial force that animates the universe Derived forms of Animism animist…

13. 3 In the sixth century B.C.E., while Pythagoras and his followers in Greece were advocating the theory of transmigration of souls, Hindu sages living along the banks of the Indus and Ganges rivers in India were developing the same concept.

14. I pursued my study in depth and learned the give-and-take of disputation. But all this even, and the algorism, as well as the art of Pythagoras, I considered as almost a mistake in respect to the method of the Hindus.

15. BY MEANS OF Cabalistic CALCULATIONS "This is said to have been the invention of the sage Pythagoras, whose doctrine was that everything in the universe was represented and governed by certain figures or numbers, to which he ascribed mysterious properties and virtues.

16. Other articles where Apollonian-Dionysian dichotomy is discussed: irrationalism: …is usually assessed as rationalistic—a Dionysian (i.e., instinctive) strain can be discerned in the works of the poet Pindar, in the dramatists, and even in such philosophers as Pythagoras and Empedocles and in Plato

17. 13 The sect of the Essenes shared with the Hellenistic Puritans who followed Pythagoras in believing “not only the dualistic doctrine of body and soul, but the striving for bodily purity, the practice of ablutions, the rejection of blood offerings, the encouragement of celibacy [becoming in effect eunuchs].”