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 ...

Its followers are often referred to as simply the Pythagoreans, a secret society dedicated to a combination of scientific and mystical precepts. They were an eccentric bunch, and the legends ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the same time, he was a “student of Greek literature,” no mean study. Cato adds, “.In order to exercise my memory, I follow the practice of the Pythagoreans and run over in my mind every evening ...

No original writing from Pythagoras survives. What we know of him was passed on by others, in particular the Pythagoreans – members of a school he set up in what is now modern-day southern Italy.

But is it really a formula for beauty? The Pythagoreans first discovered the Golden Ratio, also called the “Divine Proportion”, about 2,400 years ago. It’s a mathematical value called “phi”, ...