Pitagora di Samo (570- 495 a.C.) era un antico filosofo greco e matematico, e fondatore del movimento religioso chiamato Pythagoreanism. Egli ha fatto influenti contributi alla filosofia e religione nel tardo VI secolo A.C. Egli è spesso riverito
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Pythagoras of Samos (570- 495 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He made influential contributions to philosophy and religion in the late 6th century BC. He is often revered as a great mathematician, mystic, and scientist and is best known for the Pythagorean theorem, a theorem in geometry that states that in a right-angled triangle the area of the square on the hypotenuse, the side opposite the right angle, is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares of the other two sides. Many of the accomplishments credited to Pythagoras may actually have been accomplishments of his colleagues and successors. Whether or not his disciples believed that everything was related to mathematics and that numbers were the ultimate reality is unknown. It was said that he was the first man to call himself a philosopher, or lover of wisdom, and Pythagorean ideas exercised a marked influence on Plato, and through him, all of Western philosophy. No texts by Pythagoras are known to have survived. His followers pursued the religious rites and practices developed by Pythagoras and studied his philosophical theories. The society took an active role in the politics of Croton but this eventually led to their downfall. Pythagorean meeting-places were burned and Pythagoras was forced to flee the city. He is said to have died in Metapontum.
