Pythagoras was born in 570 BC in Samos, Greece. He studied in Egypt and Babylon before founding a school in Crotona, Italy around 518 BC where he taught mathematics, philosophy and developed theories on music and ethics. Pythagoras is best known for discovering the Pythagorean theorem, which states that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. He died around 495 BC in Metapontum, Italy at around age 75.

2. Quick Facts on Pythagoras
• He was born at Samos in 570 B.C.
• His main interests were in
Metaphysics, Music, Mathematics
, Ethics and Politics.
• His notable works were Musica
universalis, Golden
ratio, Pythagorean
tuning, Pythagorean theorem.
• He died at Metapontum in 495
B.C when he was aged around 75
yrs.

3. Quick Facts on Pythagoras
The present country of Samos The ruined city of Metapontum

5. Life of Pythagoras
• His father, Mnesarchus, was a gem merchant. His
mother's name was Pythais. Pythagoras had two or
three brothers.
• Some historians say that Pythagoras was married
to a woman named Theano and had a daughter
Damo, and a son named Telauges, who succeeded
Pythagoras as a teacher and possibly taught
Empedocles.
• Pythagoras was well educated, and he played the
lyre throughout his lifetime, knew poetry and
recited Homer.
• Pythagoras left Samos for Egypt in about 535 B.C.
to study with the priests in the temples. Many of
the practices of the society he created later in
Italy can be traced to the beliefs of Egyptian
priests, such as the codes of secrecy, striving for
purity, and refusal to eat beans or to wear animal
skins as clothing.

6. Life of Pythagoras
• In 520 BC, Pythagoras, left Babylon and
returned to Samos, and sometime later
began a school called The Semicircle. His
methods of teaching were not popular with
the leaders of Samos, and their desire for
him to become involved in politics did not
appeal to him, so he left.
• Pythagoras settled in Crotona, a Greek
colony in southern Italy, about 518 BC, and
founded a philosophical and religious school
where his many followers lived and worked.
The Pythagoreans lived by rules of behavior,
including when they spoke, what they wore
and what they ate. Pythagoras was the
Master of the society, and the followers,
both men and women, who also lived there,
were known as mathematikoi.

8. Pythagoras Theorem
Pythagoras, since the
fourth century AD has
commonly been given credit
for discovering
the Pythagorean theorem, a
theorem in geometry that
states that in a right-angled
triangle the area of the
square on the hypotenuse
(the side opposite the right
angle) is equal to the sum of
the areas of the squares of
the other two sides—that
is, 𝒂 𝟐 + 𝒃 𝟐 = 𝒄 𝟐.

9. Pythagoras Theorem

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