Pythagoras Research Paper

Throughout the centuries, many people have tried to find shortcuts to make their lives simple. Usually described as lazy, mathematicians came along to see the patterns that no one else was able to see. These mathematicians helped reform their societies, and bring about equations that will help others calculate what they need faster. Upon these mathematicians, Pythagoras was most likely one of the most influential mathematicians that helped shape the way that people see shapes today. Through his experiences within his childhood and his practices through adulthood, he helped reform math through the “Pythagorean Theorem”.
Through childhood, Pythagoras was born to a merchant (by the name of Mnesarchus) who happened to be from Tyre. Pythagoras studied under a diversity of teachers as a child. He was born in Eastern Aegon of Samos, Greece, a place where he would also spend the rest of his childhood. Growing up, he began to keep his dad company whenever he would work on his bargaining trips. Pythagoras also studied poetry and philosophy (which can go hand in hand) as a child. …show more content…
Later on, Pythagoras married Theano (first pupil of Croton), where they later had about seven children (historians are not completely sure of this number, but this number seemed the most reasonable according to the documents). Like Pythagoras, Theano was also a philosopher (wrote “On the Virtue”). Like many intellectuals, Pythagoras was very outspoken, therefor creating many enemies. At one point, these enemies made a mob to go burn down the place where Pythagoras was living in. Luckily, Pythagoras survived this attack, but ended up starving himself to