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OCR: C. 580 BC Pythagoras : is born in Samos, Greece 532 BC Travels to southern Italy to escape the tyrannical rule it Samos. 525 BC Establishes an academy in Croton (now Crotona) It is a school and religious brotherhood based on certain ethical and philosophical principles. All brothers have to observe loyalty and secrecy. mathematics, Pyth lagoras and his disciples experiment with arrangements of groups of pebbles and find that regular sequences of numbers occur Triangular patterns produce the sequence 1. 10 and on. Square patterns produce the sequence 16 and so on This use of pebbles explain principles gives us the por calculate (from calculus, meaning pebble and the term squared (2} geometry, they find that the sum of the angles ofa triangle is always 180 They also formulate the famous theo ...