If you’ve ever heard the phrase “the music of the spheres,” your first thought probably wasn’t about mathematics. But in its historical origin, the music of the spheres actually was all about math. In ...
The Quote of the Day of the day belongs to none other than the legendary Pythagoras. This ancient Greek scholar and ...
Pythagoras held that there are three sorts of men, just as there are three classes of strangers who go to the Olympic games. There are the lovers of gain who come to buy and sell, the lovers of honour ...
A review of When the Dog Speaks, the Philosopher Listens: A Guide to the Greatness of Pythagoras and his Curious Age by Nigel McGilchrist. In his wise, wide-ranging, and exceptionally well-produced ...
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Pythagoras (570-500 BC) was born on the island of Samos in what is now Greece. On the advice of Thales of Miletus, he travelled to Memphis in Egypt where he came into contact with priests renowned for ...
Use Pythagoras’ theorem to show a triangle is right-angled or to find one side of a right-angled triangle when two sides are known. Make sure you are confident at substituting into and manipulating ...
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