Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher, mathematician, and the founder of the Pythagorean brotherhood. The Pythagorean brotherhood was a school developed by Pythagoras that taught philosophy, geometry and was also known as a religious brotherhood. In about 532 BCE Pythagoras moved to southern Italy to escape Samos’s rule. It was only after he escaped that he started his school and teachings. Pythagoras believed in secrecy, vegetarianism, periods of food abstinence and silence, refusal to eat beans, refusal to wear animal skins, celibacy, self-examination, immortality, and reincarnation. He also taught his student math, music, philosophy, and gymnastics. Pythagoras was well known for inventing the Pythagorean theorem. The definition of the Pythagorean
