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Pythagoras was born in 570 B.C. in Samos, Ionia. His mother was named Pythais and his father was a merchant name Mnesarchus. Throughout his early life he and his father traveled to Tyre and Italy. When Pythagoras was young he liked to recite poems by Homer. Thales of Miletus was a mathematician and astronomer who influenced him to go to Egypt so that he could learn about astronomy and mathematics. In 535 B.C., he left Samos to go to Egypt because Polycrates, the tyrant of Samos, took over. While he was in Egypt he went to lectures given by Anaximander, this led to Pythagoras’ great interest in cosmology and geometry.
Pythagoras was only allowed in one temple in Egypt, the temple of Diopolis. He was accepted as a priest and was allowed to enter

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