Pythagoras Research Paper

Pythagoras Samos is one of the Greek mathematicians that had some input into the Pythagorean Theorem back in the B.C. era. Pythagoras had a very interesting life due to his travels and studies especially leading up to him studying more on the Pythagorean Theorem. Born on the island of Samos around 569 BC, Pythagoras Samos lived with his father Mnesarchus whom was a merchant and his mother Pythais was a native of Samos. Most of the early years of Pythagoras’s life was spent traveling with his father. It's known that he did travel to Egypt and Persia. On his travels he met Thales, Pherekydes, and Anaximander. These people are the ones that inspired him to learn more about mathematics and astronomy, and later on these men became his mentors. …show more content…
His wife Theano was a Philosopher. In 535 BC. Pythagoras travelled from his home in Samos to Egypt and at the time he was traveling the tyrant of Samos, Polycrates, was taking control. While staying in Egypt learning more about geometry and mathematics Pythagoras became a prisoner. In 525 BC. Cambyses II whom is the king of persia, invaded Egypt. Pythagoras was taken over to Babylon after being captured, but in 520 BC. he was freed and went back to Samos. Later on Pythagoras traveled to Crete and studied the system of laws. After learning the system he moved back to Samos and he built a school and named it the ‘Semicircle’. Shortly after establishing this school he left again and headed for Southern Italy. While arriving into Italy, Pythagoras founded a religious school, which earned him several …show more content…
Pythagoras had the belief that when a person dies their soul doesn’t die, but that it is destined into a circle of rebirths. After that the soul is freed from the cycle of other births but only freed through the purity of its life. The followers of Pythagoras also believed that the spirit and soul lied in all vegetable and animal life.
Pythagoras had studied the properties of numbers and classified them as odd numbers, even numbers, perfect numbers, and triangular numbers, so on and so forth. In fact the Pythagorean Theorem is one of the earliest of the geometry theorems. The Pythagorean Theorem states that “in right angle triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equivalent to the sum of square the other two sides. They say this theorem was already proposed during the reign of babylonian king Hammurabi, but Pythagoras being as smart as he was he went ahead and applied it to mathematics and science, and he also refined the

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