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Pythagoras, in his teachings focused on the significance of numerology, he believed that numbers themselves explained the true nature of the Universe. Numbers were in the Greek world of Pythagoras' days natural numbers – that is positive integers (there was no zero). But unlike their Greek contemporaries, the Pythagorean philosophers ...
Pythagoras is traditionally thought to have received most of his education in the Near East. [43] Modern scholarship has shown that the culture of Archaic Greece was heavily influenced by those of Levantine and Mesopotamian cultures. [43] Like many other important Greek thinkers, Pythagoras was said to have studied in Egypt.
The Golden Verses Of Pythagoras And Other Pythagorean Fragments. Theosophical Publishing House. Joost-Gaugier, Christiane L. (2007). Measuring Heaven: Pythagoras and his Influence on Thought and Art in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-7409-5; Kahn, Charles H. (2001). Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A ...
The Neoplatonists were quite justified in regarding themselves as the spiritual heirs of Pythagoras; and, in their hands, philosophy ceased to exist as such, and became theology. And this tendency was at work all along; hardly a single Greek philosopher was wholly uninfluenced by it.
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.
He was born in a Greek colony in Italy and migrated to Greece. Philolaus has been called one of three most prominent figures in the Pythagorean tradition and the most outstanding figure in the Pythagorean school. Pythagoras developed a school of philosophy that was dominated by both mathematics and mysticism. Most of what is known today about ...
Numenius of Apamea (Ancient Greek: Νουμήνιος ὁ ἐξ Ἀπαμείας, Noumēnios ho ex Apameias; Latin: Numenius Apamensis) was a Greek philosopher, who lived in Rome, [1] and flourished during the latter half of the 2nd century AD. [2] He was a Neopythagorean and forerunner of the Neoplatonists.
Little is known about the life of Nicomachus except that he was a Pythagorean who came from Gerasa. [1] His Manual of Harmonics was addressed to a lady of noble birth, at whose request Nicomachus wrote the book, which suggests that he was a respected scholar of some status. [2]