Pythagoras - The father of mathematics (570 BC-495 BC)
Around 570 BCE, Pythagoras was born on the island of Samos, which is now part of Turkey. As a young man, it is said that he visited Egypt, Phoenicia, and Babylonia in quest of knowledge.
The majority of the information we have about Pythagoras comes from third-person sources, with the first reports of his life arriving roughly 150 years after his passing. Similar to this, many of his teachings-which he most likely never recorded-were passed down by his Pythagorean Brotherhood pupils and may have even evolved after his passing. Pythagoras developed a philosophical school that attracted a large following, even though he is more recognized for his theories and concepts in mathematics than for philosophy. Many well-known women were included in this; some contemporary researchers believe Pythagoras intended women and men to study philosophy together.
The Pythagorean Theorem, which connects the lengths of a right triangle's three sides to a mathematical equation, is a topic of study in high school mathematics.
His major discoveries include the functional relevance of numbers in the real world and music, as well as the incommensurability of the side and diagonal of a square, in addition to his namesake, the Pythagoras Theorem. In general, Pythagoras held that everything in the universe was in perfect harmony, and he taught his students to attain balance by knowing what to eat (he was a vegetarian), when to sleep, and how to interact with others.
