BIOGRAPHY:
Pitágoras de Samos (séc. VI a C.). Pythagoras of
Samos (séc. VI to C.). As Tales can be called father of philosophy,
science, and with greater reason, mathematics - Aware of the countries of the
East and their wisdoms and "science".
FLASHES OF THEIR
PRODUCTION:
-- Theorem: the square of the hypotenuse of a
rectangular triangle is the sum of the squares of their catetos (This theorem was already known by Babilônios, and perhaps
also by the Indians. Probably the Pythagoras discovered independently).
-- Founded the
first school organized to cultivate knowledge, the arts (music), a life of
wisdom.
-- Was the first to use the word in the sense of mathematics today.
. -- The same can be said about the
words and philosophy cosmos (= order of the universe, based on numerical
relationships, universal laws). Perhaps also the word music received him the
meaning we use today.
-- Representation of regular geometric bodies.
-- Contributions to the basic aritimética and general
theory of numbers.
-- The distinction between numbers and odd pairs.
-- Establishment of quantitative scales of musical notes.
IMPORTANCE:
-- Qualitative
advance in geometry.
-- The rationality reached a higher level of
abstraction and quantification.
-- Design of order as abstract object and thereby the
systematization.
- -- Focus and development of a metaphysical conception of
reality.
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