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HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Taught that all relationships could be expressed in numbers. The essence of life and understanding (thinking processes) were in numbers.

We often admire the architecture of the Egyptian pyramids. Although a Greek, Pythagoras spent many years in Egypt, becoming acquainted with Egyptian learning. When the Babylonians conquered Egypt, he was carried away to Babylon, where he conversed with the Chaldean philosophers and sages.

The Pythagorean brotherhood believed that thinking and reasoning was derived from mathematical principles. This was the earliest development of the mathematical system of logical inference known as geometry.

The most famous mathematical discovery was that the square of the hypotenuse (the longest side in a right triangle) was equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. This discovery is called the Pythagorean Theorem today in his honor.

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