Pythagoras

Greek mystic-geometer whose brotherhood linked number to cosmos, and whose name carries the most famous theorem in mathematics.

Specifications & Metrics

era

c. 570 – c. 495 BC

Core Principles & Analysis

• He founded a community at Croton where number-worship and secret doctrine were one discipline.
• No writings survive; everything attributed to him comes from later followers' accounts.
• The brotherhood's fall is legend-tied to the discovery of irrational ratios in music and geometry.