Pythagoras's Accomplishments As A Greek Philosopher

Pythagoras’s life, accomplishments as a Greek mathematician and philosopher, and his influence on Greek math make him an important figure in Greek history. The majority of Pythagoras’s life helped him develop a philosophy to teach others. Pythagoras was born near 569 BC on Samos, an island in the Aegean Sea. At an early age Pythagoras started to look for wisdom, and he received wisdom by being educated in poetry, math, music, philosophy, and astronomy. Later in his life he created a philosophy and found a group who liked his teachings. People started to put an end to any political ideas, forcing Pythagoras to move to Metapontum since some of his teachings were about political life. Pythagoras died in Metapontum in 500 BC, but his teachings were kept with his followers.

The Pythagoreans had many beliefs involving numbers, the world, and the human body. Some of these beliefs were of the following: everything in life is numbers, numbers have feelings and emotions, the world is a balance of opposites, the soul is immortal and resides in the brain , and symbols have meaning. Everything the Pythagoreans invented was credited to Pythagoras. This included their discovery of the Pythagorean Theorem, which states that the sum of two legs squared is equal to the hypotenuse squared in a right triangle. In addition, the Pythagoreans discovered numbers in music, acoustics, and astronomy. The purpose of the Pythagoreans was to improve political, moral, and social life. The inventions and beliefs of Pythagoras’s followers help us understand the origins of math and philosophy in ancient