Pythagoras and the Pythagorean Theorem
By the students of E1 of the7th Primary School of Agii
Anargyri
http://7dim-ag-anarg.att.sch.gr/
Pythagoras was born in Samos, in 570 B.C.
He fled to Croton, Southern Italy to escape the tyranny of Polycrates
In Croton, he founded the Brotherhood of Pythagoreans, a secret society which studied mathematics.
The Pythagoreans had a motto:ALL IS NUMBER
The Pythagoreans believed in immortality of soul and in re-incarnation
The Pythagoreans were the first vegetarians.They did not eat meat.
Pythagoras died in Megapontium, Italy in exile. He died in 500 B.C.
He is known for the Pythagorean Theorem: “The sum of the squares of the two legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse”.