Pythagoras Research Articles

The cult of Pythagoras: math and myths

The cult of Pythagoras: math and myths

Haunted by Pythagoras

Haunted by Pythagoras

Mathematics on the Inside: A Review of Loving + Hating Mathematics: Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life

Imagine that you have woken from a dream, a dream brimming with meaning, with passion, with mystery. You try to sustain the feeling, recount the details, share the experience. You fail. Your powers of reconstruction are too meager, your tongue is too clumsy. Mathematics is such a dream, dreamed by individuals, personal, yet remarkably in a waking state, and provoking sufficient commonality in its recounting to bring individuals together to create a community of shared passion. The first dreamer of the dream, shrouded in history and myth, perhaps was Thales of Miletus, who later advised Pythagoras of Samos. Pythagoras subsequently founded an order of adherents holding knowledge and property in common while pursuing philosophical and mathematical studies as a moral basis for the conduct of life (Boyer & Merzbach, 2011).

Pythagoras in a Box

Pythagoras in a Box

Neoplatonic Lives of Pythagoras – Media of Religious Paideia?

Neoplatonic Lives of Pythagoras – Media of Religious Paideia?

Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching, and Influence by Christoph Riedweg, translated by Steven Rendall

Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching, and Influence by Christoph Riedweg, translated by Steven Rendall

Mitt Liv som Pythagoras (“My Life as Pythagoras,” a novel published in Swedish) by Fredrik Lång

Mitt Liv som Pythagoras (“My Life as Pythagoras,” a novel published in Swedish) by Fredrik Lång

Resonance ultrasound spectroscopy: Highlights of the mathematics.

We highlight the key mathematics associated with resonance ultrasound spectroscopy (RUS). From the physics viewpoint, RUS is part of the general problem of elastic vibrations in continuous media. A solid can transmit three waves: one quasilongitudinal and two quasitransverse. At resonance, we see standing waves, which we can represent by an eight‐summation Fourier‐series wave function. We begin by reviewing briefly the 1‐D vibrating‐string problem that arose in the music of many early civilizations (about 4000 BC). Pythagoras of Samos (582–507 BC) first treated this problem mathematically. In the early beginnings of modern science, both Galileo (1564–1642) and Mersenne (1588–1648) considered vibrating strings, which have a perfect analog in axial‐bar vibration. Lamb and Lame contributed in the 1800s. Probably the first inverse RUS measurement came from Cole and Frazer (1964), who studied the sphere‐vibration problem using graphical methods. Most of our talk will highlight the remarkable mathematical contr...

Diet as Encoded Politics: The Case of Ovid's Pythagoras

Diet as Encoded Politics: The Case of Ovid's Pythagoras

Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching, and Influence

Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching, and Influence

92.49 A generalisation of Pythagoras' theorem

92.49 A generalisation of Pythagoras' theorem

Euthanasia and suicide in antiquity: viewpoint of the dramatists and philosophers

‘It is not the death I fear to face but dying.’

90.09 A variation on Pythagoras' identity

90.09 A variation on Pythagoras' identity

The Numerical Mysticism of Shao Yong and Pythagoras

The Numerical Mysticism of Shao Yong and Pythagoras

N-Dimensional Variations on Themes of Pythagoras, Euclid, and Archimedes

N-Dimensional Variations on Themes of Pythagoras, Euclid, and Archimedes

88.20 Pythagoras' theorem for quadrilaterals

88.20 Pythagoras' theorem for quadrilaterals

Don't Ask Pythagoras about the Quantum

Don't Ask Pythagoras about the Quantum

Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans

Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans

Yet another proof of Pythagoras’ theorem

Yet another proof of Pythagoras’ theorem

Pythagoras' Theorem for Areas

Pythagoras' Theorem for Areas