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2. Pythagoras - Wikipedia

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   The poet Heraclitus of Ephesus (fl. c. 500 BC), who was born across a few miles of sea away from Samos and may have lived within Pythagoras's lifetime, [14] mocked Pythagoras as a clever charlatan, [8] [14] remarking that "Pythagoras, son of Mnesarchus, practiced inquiry more than any other man, and selecting from these writings he manufactured ...

3. Pythagoreanism - Wikipedia

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   Pythagoras' teachings and Pythagoreanism influenced Plato's writings on physical cosmology, psychology, ethics and political philosophy in the 5th century BC. However, Plato adhered to the dominant Greek philosophy, and the Platonic philosophy suppressed the combination of experimental method and mathematics which was an inherent part of ...

4. Hippasus - Wikipedia

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   Hippasus of Metapontum (/ ˈ h ɪ p ə s ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἵππασος ὁ Μεταποντῖνος, Híppasos; c. 530 – c. 450 BC) [1] was a Greek philosopher and early follower of Pythagoras. [2] [3] Little is known about his life or his beliefs, but he is sometimes credited with the discovery of the existence of irrational numbers.

5. Cave of Pythagoras - Wikipedia

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   The main Pythagoras Cave is the lowest of the caves. A smaller path branches off the main path to the right, leading to the cave. [1] Because of this, many visitors overlook it entirely. To reach the cave, one must climb about 2.5 meters up a steep, rugged rock, aided by a rope present at the site. The cave entrance is narrow.

6. Pythagorean cup - Wikipedia

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   A Pythagorean Cup (also known as a Pythagoras Cup, Greedy Cup, Cup of Justice, Anti Greedy Goblet or Tantalus Cup) is a practical joke device in a form of a drinking cup, credited to Pythagoras of Samos. When it is filled beyond a certain point, a siphoning effect causes the cup to drain its entire contents through the base.

7. Pythagoras in popular culture - Wikipedia

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   In the second episode ("Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"), of second season of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, set in the 23rd-century, the long-lived Lanthanite Pelia casually remarks that she hasn't taken a math class "...since Pythagoras made the crap up", implying that she was a contemporary. [5]

8. Pythagorean astronomical system - Wikipedia

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   Pythagoras developed a school of philosophy that was both dominated by mathematics and "profoundly mystical". [3] Philolaus has been called one of "the three most prominent figures in the Pythagorean tradition" [ 4 ] and "the outstanding figure in the Pythagorean school", who may have been the first "to commit Pythagorean doctrine to writing ...

9. Chronology of ancient Greek mathematicians - Wikipedia

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