pythagoras



__**Facts about Pythagoras:**__ media type="youtube" key="KEnie6eqKQw" width="370" height="350"
 * He was born in Samos, a Greek island in eastern Aegean.
 * He was born between 580b.c and 572 b.c.
 * He died between 500b.c and 490 b.c.
 * He died at the age of 90 years old, of old age.
 * His main interests were metaphysics, music, mathematics, ethics, and politics.
 * He had followers, they were called Pythagoreans.
 * The Pythagoreans were known to live their live's pure.
 * He also left his native city for Corton, Colubia.
 * He studied with priests.
 * He influenced Thales, Anaximander, and Pherecydes.
 * These men had long hair, simple clothing, but they went barefoot.
 * He was a vegetarian, he refused to eat beans because he thought they had souls.
 * He created the Pythagorean theorem.
 * He hated the square root of 2.
 * He thought that shapes controlled different elements.
 * Another one of Pythagoras's thoughts was that the Earth was round.
 * He also thought the world could be understood with math.