Pythagoras “the father of numbers”
● Philosopher, Mathematician, Musician
● Religious (Believed that the universe can be understand with numbers)
● Born on the Greek island of Samos in the eastern Aegean
● Wealthy family background
● Moved to Italy, but spent most of his time in Samos. He settled in the city of Crotone
in southern Italy.
● Also interested in music and teaching
● Needs a teaching space for his followers who includes people who lives and worked
at the school, or people who lived outside the school
● Married to a philosopher Theano with one son and three daughters
● Originator of vegetarianism
● lived in Egypt for around ten years
● 10 was the most complete number
● Cosmological study, referred to an idea of a clockwork order and beauty in the
whole universe.
● Silence is important to him, staying quiet was a way to learn self-control
● belief system was the transmigration of the soul
● Golden ratio
Taboos of Pythagoras:
1.to abstain from beans
2.not to pick up what has fallen
3.not to break bread
4.not to step over a crossbar
5.not to eat from whole loaf
6.not to walk on highways
7.do not look in a mirror beside a light
8. don't touch the white cock
9.no swallows are allowed in room
10.one must put the right shoe on first
Contemporary relation：
1.He can be a PhD of a university, with degrees like philosophy, mathematics and astronomy.A s with his own strict theorem.
2.Cult leader
Life Style:
A silence living place with strict rules
