Pythagoras (In Our Time)
530 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests Serafina Cuomo, John O'Connor and Ian Stewart discuss the ideas and influence of the Greek mathematician Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans. The Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras is probably best known for the theorem concerning right-angled triangles that bears his name.
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Around 530 BCE
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Cyrus the Great (600 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)
- Babylonian Captivity of the Jews (597 BCE)
- Socrates (469 BCE)