Pythagoras
<person> (Pythagoras of Samos, Ionia; about 569-475 BC) The Greek
mathematician who founded a philosophical and religious school in Croton (now
Crotone) in southern Italy.
Pythagoras is most famous for Pythagoras' theorem but other important postulates
are attributed to him, e.g. the sum of the angles of a triangle is equal to two
right angles.
(2004-02-12)
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