He governed a very stirct cultural centre. True or False?
True!
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What was his theory called?
The Pythagorian Therum.
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What was it based off of?
Numbers!
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Where was he born?
Samos.
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What had he lived as before he became a philosipher and a mathmatician?
He was a warrior.
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Was his school open to men, women, or both men and women?
Both male and female!
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What does his theory find?
The length of the third side of a right triangle when the other two sides are known.
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What did his religion state?
That numbers are everything and everything can be explained in numbers.
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Where did he travel when he was young?
Egypt
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What was Pythagoras known as?
"The Father Of Numbers"
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What were the people in his society called?
Mathematikoi.
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What is the theory?
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
(^2 means squared)
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What did his followers find?
A close connection between numbers and the order, proportion, and harmony of the universe.
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How many brothers did he have? Two possible answers.
Some people say he had three but at least two.
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What was he the first to call himself?
He was the first man to call himself a philosopher or lover of wisdom.
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Where did the people in his society live?
His school.
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How old is his theory?
It is known as one of the oldest theorums.
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What did his followers/students do?
They laid out the foundation for all later developments in geometery.
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What instrument did he learn to play when he was a kid?
The lyre.
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How much of his writing survived?
None!
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What food were they allowed to eat?
Vegetables, they were vegetarians!
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What did he do when he found out his theory and why?
He sacraficed some oxen because he was so happy.
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What did he teach?
Numbers have personalities, characteristics, strenghths and weaknesses. The soul resides in the brain and is immortal. Both mathematics and music can purify. The world depends on interaction of opposites. Certain symbols have a mystical signifigance. Mathematics is the basics of everything. Souls are immortal and entere new bodies when people die. A person's actions in life will influence what body thier soul will choose next. Animals have souls. The universe can be explained by mathematics. His religion was based off of worshiping numbers.
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Who was he influenced by?
He was influenced by his teacher, the philosopher, Pherekydes.