Pythagoras · Mathematics
The theorem that bears Pythagoras’s name, and the strange brotherhood that first proved it - a community where mathematics, music, and mysticism were one, and where to discover a truth was a religious act.
You learned the Pythagorean theorem and the brotherhood that proved it. State the theorem and explain why the Pythagoreans treated mathematical discovery as something almost sacred.
Leads to Euclid.
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