| Pythagoras
and his theorem
Scientist and shaman, legislator and oligarch, performer of miracles and
philosopher (in fact, inventor of the term philosophy itself), magician and
lecturer, liberator of cities and musician, father of Greek
rationality and heir to the esoteric knowledge of the East. This founder of
Mathematics is remembered mainly for a theorem discovered ten centuries
before he was born and probably not demonstrated until after his death.
Pythagoras.
A section of the Museum is dedicated to the discovery or rediscovery of
more or less well known aspects of his theorem.
Here we report on the specifications of the exhibition and some fragments by various
classical authors relating to his life and teaching.
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