Meaning of Pythagoras | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use, and a transliteration from modern Greek.
2. Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC), an Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher.
3. Ellipsis of Pythagoras' theorem.
   abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis

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“Gratiano: O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog! And for thy life let⟳ justice be accused. Thou almost makest me waver in my faith, To hold⟳ opinion with Pythagoras, That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter, Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet, And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam, Infused itself in thee; for thy desires Are wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.”

“Serge Lang and Gene Murrow (1988), Geometry, →ISBN, page 203: “By Pythagoras, we find⟳ the length of the third side, |AB|² = (2a)² – a² = 4a² – a² = 3a²””

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