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According to Burkert, Pythagoras never dealt with numbers at all, let alone made any noteworthy contribution to mathematics. [146] Burkert argues that the only mathematics the Pythagoreans ever actually engaged in was simple, proofless arithmetic , [ 148 ] but that these arithmetic discoveries did contribute significantly to the beginnings of ...
Much of the surviving sources on Pythagoras originated with Aristotle and the philosophers of the Peripatetic school, which founded historiographical academic traditions such as biography, doxography and the history of science. The surviving 5th century BC sources on Pythagoras and early Pythagoreanism are void of supernatural elements, while ...
Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC) was credited with many mathematical and scientific discoveries, including the Pythagorean theorem, Pythagorean tuning, the five regular solids, the Theory of Proportions, the sphericity of the Earth, and the identity of the morning and evening stars as the planet Venus.
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 ...
The History of Philosophy. Penguin. ISBN 978-1-9848-7875-5. William Keith Chambers Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 1, The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans, 1962. Søren Kierkegaard, On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates, 1841. A.A. Long. Hellenistic Philosophy. University of California, 1992. (2nd Ed.)
The Pythagoras Award, or The Pythagoras Prize, or The Pitagor Prize (named after Pythagoras - a Greek philosopher, mathematician and scientist, Bulgarian: Награда Питагор), established in 2008, is an award given annually to Bulgarian nationals by the Ministry of Science and Education of Bulgaria in recognition for outstanding scientific achievements.
A History of Greek Mathematics is a book by English historian of mathematics Thomas Heath about history of Greek mathematics. It was published in Oxford in 1921, in two volumes titled Volume I, From Thales to Euclid and Volume II, From Aristarchus to Diophantus.
Katia Sycara - Professor in the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science's Robotics Institute and the director of the Laboratory for Agents technology and Semantic web technologies. [29] Nicholas Varopoulos (born 1940) - Notable for his analysis on Lie groups. [30] Stathis Zachos (born 1947) - Published a number of writings on computer science.