Pythagoras
c. 550 BCE – 490 BCElived
Samos, Ionia
- Presocratic
Ran a secretive commune that treated mathematics as a route to salvation. Whether the theorem is his is doubtful; the idea that reality is fundamentally numerical outlived him by millennia.
Known for
- number as the substance of things
- transmigration of souls
- harmony of the spheres
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.