Mathematician. Philosopher. World traveler. Pythagoras was an intellgient and curious scholar and teacher. While he s best known for the Pythagorrean theorem, he shared ideas about numbers, animals and many other areas of knwoledge with his students. Since none of his writingers were left behind, it s not always easy for historians to know what s true about Pythagoras and what may be legendary. What does seem apparent is that he was a vegetarian but...

A biography of the pre-Socratic whose intellectual accomplishments reach far beyond the Pythagorean theorem for which we remember him today.