WHAT MAKES A PYTHAGOREAN PYTHAGOREAN?

The present paper characterizes the Pythagoreans as those thinkers that maintain that the lógos of the universe is revealed by a mathematical theory of proportion. Part of what is thereby revealed, according to the Pythagoreans, is the transmigration of the soul and the need to organize the mesocos...

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Main Author: John A. Fossa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de História da Matemáticas (SBHMat) 2020-10-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de História da Matemática
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Online Access:https://www.rbhm.org.br/index.php/RBHM/article/view/142