Pythagoras and the Pythagorean Theorem

By the students of E1 of the7th Primary School of Agii

Anargyri

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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”.