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Pythagoras

Pythagoras

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A Greek thinker and mathematician from ancient Greece who found the rule about triangles with a right angle
  • proper noun
translation icon : Pitágoras
  • All is number, Pythagoras told the boy, and Arnold believed it.
  • Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher
  • work of Pythagoras

I don't know if it's Aristotle or Pythagoras, but the fastest way between two points is a straight line.

Examples

  • Pythagoras, an artist at heart and a great lover of music, made the discovery that the pitch of sound depends upon the length of the vibrating string.

    The Pawnbroker (1965)

  • At the board, the math teacher droned on about Pythagoras and pi.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • The sequence has an interesting connection to Pythagoras' theorem of the Golden Section.

    Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)

  • I choose the music of the planets based on the works of Pythagoras.

    Violent Blue (2011)

  • Perhaps Pythagoras was the first to meld music and science.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Change one assumption and Pythagoras' theorem is not true anymore.

    Blog text (30)

  • For example, the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras (sixth century BCE) was the first to discover many acoustical phenomena discussed in this article.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Over 2,500 years ago, the Greek mathematician Pythagoras formulated a theory still used today.

  • At the board, the math teacher droned on about Pythagoras and pi.

  • I choose the music of the planets based on the works of Pythagoras.

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Etymology

Pythagoras is the ancient Greek name of a man who lived about 2,500 years ago and who was both a philosopher and a mathematician. His name now marks the famous Pythagorean rule about right triangles, so hearing Pythagoras should make you think of triangles and number patterns.