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Pitagora was born on the isle of Samo between the 580 and the 570 B.C. where he lived for 40 years. At this stage in life, he left his country and moved to Crotone the centre of an important medical school and founded a school where both men and women were allowed to study, a unique event in the Greek world. His teachings did not set out to transmit theorical knowledge but rather, to support a life style and an inner purification that had both mystical and scientific aspects. Pitagora believed that the structure of reality was based on numbers; that the principle of all things was the opposition between prime numbers and odd. By this law he derived all the oppositions between the physical and the moral world (limited/unlimited, one/many, male/female, good/evil and so on). Originating with numbers, he believed one could deduce all the exact laws that rule every relationship in the universe. He addressed various sciences in the study of arithmetic and geometry, revealing such famous theorems as the right-angled triangle based on abstact considerations. Arithmetic and geometry led him to the study of acustic (thanks to which he discovered the principal musical intervals) and astronomy. He delved into the conceptions and numbers revolving around arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music to express the deep harmony of reality. |
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