Pythagoras

Comprehensive information about Pythagoras including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. Pythagoras made influential contributions to philosophy and religious teaching in the late 6th century BC. He is often revered as a great mathematician, mystic and scientist, but he is best known for the Pythagorean theorem which bears his name. This educational Pythagoras resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.