Pythagoras · Mathematics
The boldest idea of the Pythagoreans - that number is not merely a tool for counting but the very substance and structure of reality, the hidden order from which all things are made.
You learned the Pythagorean doctrine that ‘all is number’. Explain what it means to say the universe is fundamentally mathematical, and why this idea was so revolutionary and so fruitful.
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