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1. PYTHAGORAS
Learn all about this amazing mathematician!!
By Kyla G.

2. HIS CHILDHOOD
 He was born in 570 B.C.
 He is the son of Mnesarchos.
 His mom is Pythais.
 He is known to have two or three brothers.
 Pythagoras lived on the island of Samos, the western coast of
what is now Turkey.
 He was smart as a kid. He learned to play the lyre (a Greek
string instrument. Top right), do pottery, and recite to Homer
(Wrote poems and read them to others).
 Pythagoras had a birthmark on his thigh. People said he had
a golden thigh!!
 In school there were three people that really influenced
Pythagoras. His teachers Pherekdes and Thales, but also
Thales student named Anaximander.
 He traveled many places like Egypt as a young man to get a
better education. Thales had suggested that he should go to
Egypt to gain knowledge. It is said that Pythagoras gained
most of his knowledge in Egypt.

3. ADULTHOOD
 The Persians invaded Egypt while Pythagoras was there.
Pythagoras was taken prisoner and sent to Babylon (which is
now Iraq). About 10 years later he was freed.
 He left Babylon and went back to Samos. He founded a
school there called the Semicircle. The leaders of Samos did
not like Pythagoras teachings, so he left.
 The Pythagoreans lived simply, they dressed simply and ate
on a strict diet.
 Pythagoras married a woman named Teano, who attended the
Pythagorean school he founded.
 Pythagoras had five children Myia or Mryia, Damo, and
Arignote, were his daughters. His sons were Arimnestes, and
Telauges.
 Some of Pythagoras’ famous sayings are “Silence is better
than unmeaning words.”-Pythagoras and “above a cloud with
a shadow is a star with its light. Above all things reverence
thyself.” - Pythagoras

4. PYTHAGOREAN SCHOOL
 Pythagoras tried to found a school in Samos but couldn’t, and
instead founded a school in Crotona Italy.
 The Pythagorean school was founded around 530 B.C.
 The Pythagorean school was scientific, but also very religious.
 Pythagoras taught in this school.
 Here is the schools hectic schedule. Morning: meditation,
planned out their schedule for the next day, ate breakfast,
exercise, and study. Afternoon: ate lunch, they wrote and got
letters from family members, and went for a walk. Night: ate
supper, read, and then meditated.
 Pythagoras taught that the Earth was a sphere in the center of
the universe. Pythagoras also noticed that the orbit of the
moon is inclined with the Earth’s equator.

5. THE PYTHAGORAS THEOREM
 The Pythagoras theorem is a2+ b2=c2.
 This theory applies only to right triangles.
 A right triangle must have a 90 degree angle.
 The longest side called the a hypotenuse, is always across
from the 90 degree angle.
 This theory was not first discovered by Pythagoras, though.
It was first discovered by indian mathematicians.
Pythagoras proved this theory and popularized it.
 Pythagoras also believed that after a person dies their
soul is placed in a new body. They believed
that you might have a body of an animal!

6. FUN FACT ABOUT PYTHAGORAS
Pythagoras was a vegetarian! Because of his religion
he did not eat meat!!

7. PYTHAGORAS DIED AROUND 495 B.C.

8. THE END!!
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