Who was Pythagoras?

Pythagoras was a Greek mathematician that founded the Pythagoreanism. He was born between 580 and 572 BC and died between 500 and 490 BC. As many other Greeks, he wasn’t only a mathematician; he was also a philosopher and a scientist. He is mainly known because of his math discoveries, between them, the Pythagorean Theorem, which is named after him.

He believed that math was related to everything. That with numbers you can measure patterns and cycles. What is interesting about him is that he was the first “lover of wisdom” or a philosopher. All of his writings disappeared and all we know from him is from writings from his friends. What I can say from this is that maybe he found something else about math that we don’t know and never told anyone so it will be always a secret.

There was a group of followers who are now a day called the Pythagoreans. The idea of this group was that everything started with numbers and everything can be solved with numbers. This group was not only a group of people that got together to talk about math, they were like a family, a brotherhood. They helped each other in everything. In their math problems and in life problems. They had a rule that I’m going to just as I got it. A rule that they had was to help a man "in raising a burden, but do not assist him in laying it down, for it is a great sin to encourage indolence."