Pythagoras Research Paper

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Before the age of algebra and analytic Geometry there was Pythagoras: Philosopher, well-known Mathematician, scientist, and a religious teacher. In life this famous Greek thinker developed and coined Pythagoreanism, his own branch of education which would set his theorems to become quite important in geometry. Though there is not much known about Pythagoras’s personal life, relative to more recent famous mathematicians, his life and contributions to mathematics are important in developing the field of geology into what it is today.
Pythagoras was born in Samos, Ionia (what is now Greece) around 569 BCE (3). From a young age Pythagoras was well educated and well-traveled. He had various mentors Pherekydes, Thales, and Anaximander who advised

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