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Another random question of the day:
Was #Pythagoras a cult leader?
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📚🤔 "Shhh, the New Yorker whispers, as they uncover the 'secret' that silence is golden—I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, that it took them this long to crack the 'quiet' code! 🙄 Apparently, #enlightenment through saying less was the norm, and #Pythagoras was just a retro podcast host who didn't let anyone talk for five years. 🎙️✨"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/10/silence-kate-mcloughlin-book-review #silenceisgolden #NewYorker #quietcode #retrothoughts #HackerNews #ngated -
#Pythagoras and the #Cult of #Numbers : Medium
Natural #Tissue #Immortality: Indefinite survival of #SeaCucumber #Explants : Science
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Pythagoras: The Man, The Myth, The Mathematician
Pythagoras (c. 570–495 BCE) is one of history's most enigmatic figures. We know him for a² + b² = c², but his legacy is far stranger: a fusion of rigorous mathematics, religious mysticism, and political revolution. He didn't just discover a formula; he proposed that mathematics is the language of reality itself.
The Journey of Wisdom
Born on the island of Samos, Pythagoras didn't stay put. He traveled to Egypt and Babylon, absorbing geometry from priests and astronomy from scholars. He synthesized these traditions into a radical idea: Numbers are universal. They don't change based on culture or gods. This insight birthed the concept of universal truth accessible through reason—the foundation of science.
The Pythagorean School
In Croton (Southern Italy), he founded a community that was part university, part monastery.
Radical Inclusivity: He accepted women as students (like Theano and Damo), believing intellect transcended gender.
Communal Life: Members shared possessions, lived together, and followed strict dietary rules (famously avoiding beans—reasons vary from soul-transmigration to flatulence).
Secret Knowledge: An inner circle (mathematikoi) mastered advanced proofs, while outsiders (akousmatikoi) listened in silence.
The Mathematical Revolution
Proof over Observation: While Babylonians knew the theorem, Pythagoras provided the first logical proof. This shifted math from practical measurement to eternal certainty.
Music & Math: He discovered that musical harmony follows simple ratios (2:1 for octaves, 3:2 for fifths). This proved that beauty has a mathematical structure.
Irrational Numbers: His own followers discovered √2 cannot be expressed as a fraction. Legend says they drowned the discoverer (Hippasus) because it shattered their worldview that "all is number." Yet, the math survived.
Mysticism & The Soul
Pythagoras was also a mystic. He taught metempsychosis (reincarnation), believing souls cycle through animals and humans. This led to vegetarianism and a deep reverence for all life. He saw the Tetractys (a triangle of 10 dots) as a sacred symbol of cosmic order. To him, math wasn't cold calculation—it was theology.
The Fall & The Legacy
His political influence in Croton sparked a violent backlash around 510 BCE. The school was burned, members killed, and Pythagoras fled to Metapontum, dying in exile. But his ideas survived.
Plato absorbed Pythagorean math and mysticism.
Euclid codified the method of proof.
Modern Science rests on the Pythagorean assumption that the universe is rational and mathematical.
Why He Matters Today
Pythagoras reminds us that truth is discoverable. Whether in GPS navigation (using his theorem), cryptography (using number theory), or music production (using harmonic ratios), his vision persists. He showed that the universe isn't chaos—it's a symphony of numbers waiting to be understood.
#Pythagoras #Mathematics #Philosophy #AncientGreece #Tetrapharmakos #MusicTheory #IrrationalNumbers #Reincarnation #ScienceHistory #Pleroma #Fediverse #MathematicalUniverse #LegacyOfReason #TheManTheMyth #Croton -
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Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning of Wisdom
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/12/pythagoras-olympic-games/
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Violence doesn't stay in one place. The way we treat the most vulnerable shapes the world we create. 💚
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The #Universe From The #Threshold Of #Pythagoras : Medium
We’ve uncovered a #Master #Gene that #Switches on #Human #Development : New Scientist
Every #Cell in Your #Body #Glows. That Light Could Unlock Extraordinary #Insights About #Life Itself : Misc
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Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning of Wisdom
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/06/pythagoras-olympic-games/
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Als je het tijdens het eten met je 12-jarige aan de stok krijgt, omdat ze weigert tuinbonen te eten, en ze zegt "Pythagoras hield ook niet van tuinbonen.", dan heeft ze waarschijnlijk gelijk.
Het is misschien tijd om haar boekenleeshistorie in de bieb eens te bekijken.
Maar inderdaad, het verhaal gaat dat Pythagoras niet van tuinbonen hield.
Ik zou een punt honoreren voor de 12-jarige, want die is onderweg naar een toekomst 😁
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Auf in den Zug nach Hamburg, das OpenData Barcamp #ODB26 ruft.
Auf den Ohren: Angine de Poitrine.
#Mikrotonal #Pythagoras #MathRock
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If everything responds to vibration, what does your daily thinking teach the space around you? #LawOfVibration #AncientWisdom #Pythagoras #Plato #HermeticPrinciples #NikolaTesla #ConsciousLiving #InnerWork #EnergyAndFrequency #MindAndMatter #BetterLiving
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According to the biography by Diogenes Laertius, Pythagoras (c.570–c.490 BCE) ‘held that the most beautiful figure is the sphere among solids, and the circle among plane figures’.
This aesthetic preference for the circle and sphere can be traced through thinkers like Plato (who, according to later writers, set the problem of describing the movements of the heavens using uniform circular motions), Cicero (106–43 BCE), and Proclus (410/12–485 CE), and into the middle ages.
Thomas Bradwardine (1290/1300–1349), one of the mediaeval ‘Oxford calculators’, was obviously influenced by this tradition when he wrote that the circle ‘is the first and most perfect of figures, the simplest and most regular, the most capacious and the most beautiful of figures’.
But Bradwardine then presented evidence that he saw as attesting to the beauty and perfection of the circle: (1) the construction to find the centre of a circle by bisecting a diameter found as the perpendicular bisector of a chord; (2) that the intersections of six equally-spaced radii with the circumference define a regular hexagon; (3) that exactly six circles of equal size can touch a given circle (see attached image).
For Bradwardine, the perfection of the circle was thus linked to the perfection of the number 6 = 1+2+3: the construction involves six intersections with the circle; the hexagon is made up of six lines; the third result involves six outer circles.
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#MathematicalBeauty #HistMath #Pythagoras #Bradwardine #geometry #aesthetics #PerfectNumber
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Hi fam, have a fulfilling day! Here comes #Pythagoras 2.0 and a proof of #Fermat'sLastTheorem. Finding every #PythagoreanTriplet that includes any #naturalNumber >2 has never been easier! (0.5d(m²-1))²+d²m²=(a+d)² with 0.5d(m²-1) as "a", dm as "b", 0.5d(m²+1) as "c" #education #mathematics #math
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The deep mathematics of why 10² + 11² + 12² = 13² + 14² Pythagorean theorem? Tired. Pythagorean runs? Wired! Learn why 10² + 11² + 12² = 13² + 14², plus a whole lot more! bigthink.com/starts-with-... #math #science #pythagoras #pythagorean
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Happy Pythagorean Squares Day! (9/16/25 = 3²/4²/5², a Pythagorean Triple). Here's a visualization of the smaller two numbers of a set of Pythagorean triples. Values were found using Euclid's formula with n and m the integers up to 100 and k up to 25. Color scaled with k. Axes rotated 45° just for fun.
#pythagoreanday #pythagoras #pythagoreantriple #mathart #euclid #geometry
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Gisteren de film #Hackers 30 jaar oud. Vandaag #Pythagoras dag (4² / 3² / [20]5²). Zoveel te vieren voor een nerd 😱
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"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few."
-Pythagoras
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Shower thoughts: What if… someone with a brain and contemporary sensibilities started a new non-religion based on science? You know, a quasi-spiritual framework for the rest of us open minded thoughtful individuals seeking meaning and fellowship. I mean, why should the traditional religions have an exclusive hold on that side of our existence? Seems to me like there should be real choice… so I penned the basics of a new approach I’m calling the Neo-Pythagorean Assembly. I know, it’s pretty presumptuous of me, but hey… if L. Ron Hubbard did it, why can’t I? But I didn’t take my inspiration from Scientology. no. In my defense, I’m a compulsive thinker and writer, so I tend to write down whatever is in my head at the moment. This is what I came up with - a basic primer and an initial codex for a new non-religion. No intent here to offend any of you with a strong belief in your faith, just floating an alternative approach. https://docs.google.com/document/d/13cRcpb6XADRKgl0uAPlLQAbN5_z1qQpVviRwtrvBcH4/edit?usp=drivesdk #religion #Pythagoras #Pythagoreanism #spirituality
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„Wer sich mit #Physik beschäftigt, sollte und kann sich nicht an einem direkten Return-on-Investment orientieren. Man darf sich nicht fragen: Wie viel Geld kann ich damit mal verdienen? Das, woran man forscht, ist oft so indirekt, dass nicht klar ist, wann und ob das mal benutzt werden kann. #Pythagoras wollte die Einheit Gottes beweisen und hatte keine Ahnung, dass sein Satz viel später mal für Werftarbeiter im Arsenal von Venedig nützlich sein würde, um Kisten ins Schiff zu laden.“
Ganz genau. Und deswegen braucht man Unis, die friedlich vor sich hinforschen können.
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Virtue stands firm
This is the divine law of life: That only virtue stands firm. All the rest is nothing.
~ Pythagorasslip:4a966.
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