Pythagoras

Pythagoras

Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher who was born on the islands of Samos, in the Aegean Sea and he was the founder of the Pythagorean Theorem that we use to find out if a triangle is a right triangle. He was born around 560 B.C. and died around 480 B.C. He was originally from the city of Samos, Ionia. From Samos he moved to the city of Croton. In Croton he established a school. The school was a philosophical and religious school. This school practiced in secret so not very many records survived and little is known. Students of Pythagoras' school were called Pythagoreans. These Pythagoreans believed that everything could be reduced to numbers. They said that all things are numbers. The Pythagoreans studied triangles with the ratio 3:4:5. They noticed that all 3:4:5 triangles are right triangles. Using that triangle, Pythagoreans came up with the Pythagorean Theorem. He stated that the