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Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans

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http://math.tamu.edu/~dallen/history/pythag/pythag.html

An exploration of Pythagorean mathematics, including proportion, figurate numbers, the pentagram, the Golden Section and so on

Date created: 
Monday, October 8, 2012
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Subjects: 
Philosophy
Keywords: 
Greek philosophy, Greek mathematics, Pythagoras, Pythagoreanism, Figurate numbers, Proportions, Pythagoras' Theorem, Golden section, Incommensurability, Incommensurables
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