Vegetarians used to be called Pythagoreans in an ode to the famed Greek mathematician, Pythagoras. Known for his Pythagorean theorem, Pythagoras was once considered the "father" of vegetarianism.

In Cicero’s dialogue “On Old Age,” the great Roman statesman Cato tells us how he occupies his time once he is no longer able to take an active role in public life. First, he was busy on the seventh ...

Some say that the Pythagoreans took offense at this assertion because such numbers went against their worldview. In other tales, Hippasus made his results public and thus violated the sect's secrecy .

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Cato adds, “.In order to exercise my memory, I follow the practice of the Pythagoreans and run over in my mind every evening all that I have said, heard, or done during the day.” Our memory, like our ...

Beyond the fact that he was born on the Greek isle of Samos around 569 B.C. and died around 475 B.C., not much is known about him. Pythagoras left no writings, but he did found a sect (or, what some ...

Pythagoreans recited poetry, sang hymns to Apollo, and played on the lyre to cure illnesses of body and soul. One day, or so the story goes, Pythagoras passed by some blacksmiths at work, ...

The Pythagoreans experimented 1 with plucked strings and found that the intervals that pleased one’s ears were: the octave (1:2), the fifth (2:3) and the fourth (3:4). If we add two Greek composite ...

The Pythagoreans idealized the whole numbers, and viewed them as a cornerstone of the universe. Their studies of geometry and music centered on relating quantities as ratios of whole numbers.