And the first of those Greeks to seriously put math to use for that purpose was the mysterious religious cult leader Pythagoras of Samos. It was Pythagoras who turned math from a mere tool for ...

Most people don’t remember math class, but they do remember Pythagoras. Greek philosopher and mathematician, he is credited with one of the handiest formulae any school student could know ...

The tablet, likely used for teaching, dates to the Old Babylonian period between 1900-1600 BCE – centuries before Pythagoras ...

What began as a bonus question in a high school math contest has resulted in a staggering 10 new ways to prove the ancient ...

Pythagoras was an ancient Greek philosopher who revealed it to the western world nearly 2000 years later. Calcea Johnson shares her and Ne'Kiya Jackson's present their claim to have proven the ...

According to the Ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras, 'consonance' -- a pleasant-sounding combination of notes -- is produced by special relationships between simple numbers such as 3 and 4.

An ancient Greek belief about the most pleasing combinations of musical notes – often attributed to the philosopher Pythagoras – doesn’t actually reflect the way people around the world ...

A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has revealed that the ancient Babylonians understood the Pythagorean theorem more than 1,000 years before the birth of the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, who is widely ...

Vegetarians used to be called Pythagoreans in an ode to the famed Greek mathematician, Pythagoras. Known for his Pythagorean theorem, Pythagoras was once considered the "father" of vegetarianism.