This possible inspiration is presented as an example problem in the Berlin Papyrus. PythagorasUpon his migration from Samos to Croton, Calabria, Italy, Pythagoras established a secret religious society very similar to (and possibly influenced by) the earlier Orphic cult. Pythagoras undertook a reform of the cultural life of Croton, urging the citizens to follow virtue and form an elite circle of followers around himself called Pythagoreans...
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Very strict rules of conduct governed this cultural center. He opened his school to male and female students alike. Those who joined the inner circle of Pythagoras's society called themselves the Mathematikoi. They lived at the school, owned no personal possessions and were required to assume a vegetarian diet...
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Pythagoras It was later published in the New England Journal of Education. The proof depends on calculataing the area of a right trapezoid two different ways. The first way is by using the area formula of a trapezoid and the second is by adding up the areas of the three right triangles that can be constructed in the trapezoid...	2 / 329
Pythagoras Several women from the society became famous philosophers (Pythagoras). The Pythagoreans adhered to certain mysteries, similar in many respects to the Orphic mysteries...	4 / 930
Pythagoras While in Egypt, Pythagoras was captured and taken to Babylon. In prison, Pythagoras learned about sacred rites and mystical worships of the gods from the Magoi...	6 / 1531
Pythagoras Pythagoras noticed that vibrating strings produce harmonious tones when the ratios of the lengths of the strings are whole numbers. They discovered that the length of strings of a musical instrument correspond to these intervals and that they can be expressed in numbers...	3 / 622