![]() The ratio of the length of two strings with which two tones of an octave step are produced is 2:1. They discovered that the length of strings of a musical instrument corresponds to these intervals and that they can be expressed in numbers. Pythagoras and his disciples connected music with mathematics and found that intervals between notes can be expressed in numerical terms. It could be said that Pythagoras saw the study of mathematics as a purifier of the soul, just like he considered music as purifying. This is how Pythagoras came to mathematics. ![]() ![]() Because of the extraordinary nature of his claim they all urged that the shield be taken down – and it turned out that on the inside the inscription was found.” (Diogenes Laertius) They did not believe him and judged him to be mad, but he said he would provide a true sign that it was indeed the case: on the inside of the shield there had been inscribed in archaic lettering EUPHORBUS. When the Argives asked him the reason for his emotion, he said that he himself had borne that shield at Troy when he was Euphorbus. They say that once when he was staying at Argos he saw a shield from the spoils of Troy nailed up, and burst into tears. He himself used to say that he remembered being, in Trojan times, Euphorbus, Panthus’ son who was killed by Menelaus. “Pythagoras believed in metempsychosis and thought that eating meat was an abominable thing, saying that the souls of all animals enter different animals after death. It was Pythagoras’ ambition to reveal in his philosophy the validity and structure of a higher order, the basis of the divine order, for which souls return in a constant cycle. Also, the way in which the Pythagorean geometry developed also bears witness to its descent from that of Miletos.Īfter Pythagoras introduced the idea of eternal recurrence into Greek thought, which was apparently motivated by his studies of earlier Egyptian scriptures, the idea soon became popular in Greece. It is stated that he was a disciple of Anaximander, his astronomy was the natural development of Anaximander’s. Like Thales, Pythagoras is rather known for mathematics than for philosophy. As mathematicians they were interested in quantitative relations, which are measurable, and began to speculate upon the problem of the uniformity and regularity in the world ,attempting to explain this fact by making an entity of number and setting it up as the principle of all being. We come now to a school of philosophers who turned their attention particularly to the question of form or relation. What, they asked, is the stuff of which the world is composed? They regarded it as a concrete, determinate substance, like water or air, or as something from which such elements are differentiated. The thinkers before Pythagoras were, interested in the problem of the essence of things. There is geometry in the humming of the strings there is music in the spacing of the spheres. Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. Ed, Ph.Dįormer Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India
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