Labels:book | sculpture | tribute album OCR: PYTHAGORAS (580 BC 500 BC) HB IDEAS of the Greek mathema tician and philosopher Pythagoras con tributed to the devel lopment of modern mathematics and Western philosophy. His aim was to explain alll natural phenomena in terms of mathematics. Pythagoras is best known for his formula for the proportions of the sides ofa right- -angled triangle. However many other concepts and notations (such as arithmetic and geometric sequences and square numbers) fundamental to modern mathematics are based on Pythagoras ideas He and his followers worked out the mathematics of the harmonics that form the basis ofW estern music today. ALSO STORY development trian arel esterr
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