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Py⋅thag⋅o⋅ras

  [pi-thag-er-uhs]
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–noun
c582–c500 b.c., Greek philosopher, mathematician, and religious reformer.
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Py·thag·o·ras   (pĭ-thāg'ər-əs)   
Greek philosopher who founded a school in southern Italy that sought to discover the mathematical principles of reality through the study of musical harmony and geometry. The Pythagorean theorem is ascribed to him.
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Pythagoras person
(Pythagoras of Samos, Ionia; about 569-475 BC) The Greek mathematician who founded a philosophical and religious school in Croton (now Crotone) in southern Italy.
Pythagoras is most famous for Pythagoras's Theorem but other important postulates are attributed to him, e.g. the sum of the angles of a triangle is equal to two right angles.
(2004-02-12)

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