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. However, it is not certain that he actually dev
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Around 530 BCE
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Cyrus the Great (600 BCE)
- Parthenon (447 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)