Pythagoras

Pythagoras
pythagoras was born is 571 BC and died in 497 BC. Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher.

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• started a religious commune with secretive doctrines involving geometric formulations.
• believed that eating animal products was cannibalism because they might contain the trans-migrated souls of human ancestors.
• He and his cult also refused to eat beans.
• believed that ones soul was going to be reincarnated. That is also what the Hindu religion tells as the truth. Pythagoras himself said that he had once before lived as a warrior in the Troja-war.
• According to Pythagoras, a perfect number was 10.

Pythagoras was born on an island called Samos. When he was young, he engaged in many different travels, including Egypt and other locations that piqued his interest in gaining more knowledge. He is most widely known for the Pythagorean theorem, which states that "a right-angled triangle the area of the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares of the other two sides," in other words, A2 + B2=C2.

This theorem is believed to have been used by the ancient Babylonians and the Indians, although their use of this is based on evidence of the understanding of the principle, and not on recorded writings.

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