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Pythagoras

From Egypt we move across the Mediterranean Sea to the Greek island of Samos, the
birthplace of Pythagoras, whose ideas dominate most of the material in this course.
We'll introduce Pythagoras and his secret society of the Pythagoreans.
We'll look at the Pythagoreans' ideas about numbers, as a prelude to our next unit on
number symbolism. Finally, we'll introduce a new idea that will be recurring theme
throughout this course, the musical ratios, which will reappear in discussions of the
architecture of the Renaissance.
Our main link between Egypt and Greece seems to be Thales c 640-550 BC, father of
Greek mathematics, astronomy, and Philosophy, and was one of the Seven Sages of
Greece. A rich merchant, his duties as a merchant took him to Egypt, and so became
one of the main sources of Egyptian mathematical information in Greece. It was
Thales advised his student to visit Egypt, and that student was Pythagoras.

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