The Vegan Museum wants you to know all about the history of vegetarianism. Vegetarians used to be called Pythagoreans in an ode to the famed Greek mathematician, Pythagoras. Known for his ...

A core element of the Pythagoreans’ teachings related to harmonic numerical relationships, which included fractions of whole numbers. The whole world, they believed, could be described using ...

Yet 2,512 years after Pythagoras was born, we still don’t quite know what he or the Pythagoreans believed. But there are some wild theories… Let’s dive in. Cults and extreme beliefs ...

Pythagoras left no writings, but he did found a sect (or, what some would deem a cult): the Divine Brotherhood of Pythagoras. Its followers are often referred to as simply the Pythagoreans, a secret ...

The Pythagoreans (5th Century BC) Some of the earliest mathematicians were Pythagoras and his followers. Mixing religious mysticism with philosophy, the Pythagoreans' contemplative nature led them ...

Pythagoras (d. c. 495 BCE) is usually remembered for the theorem that bears his name, concerning the relation between the three sides of a right triangle. But although he may have introduced the ...

The solution that divides an octave into 12 equal tones never has any of them perfectly correct. The Pythagoreans experimented 1 with plucked strings and found that the intervals that pleased one’s ...

Unusually for the time, Pythagoras admitted men and women alike. Of the 235 famous Pythagoreans listed by Iamblichus, 17 are women. The men and women who entered the community’s inner circle ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Vibrating String of the Pythagoreans ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 217 No. 6 (December 1967), p. 92 doi:10.1038 ...