Pythagorean, meaning of or pertaining to the ancient Ionian mathematician, philosopher, and music theorist
Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos (; BC) was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath, and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of P ...
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Philosophy
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Pythagoreanism
Pythagoreanism originated in the 6th century BC, based on and around the teachings and beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans. Pythagoras established the first Pythagorean community in the Ancient Greece, ancient Greek co ...
, the esoteric and metaphysical beliefs purported to have been held by Pythagoras
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Neopythagoreanism, a school of philosophy reviving Pythagorean doctrines that became prominent in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD
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Pythagorean diet, the name for vegetarianism before the nineteenth century
Mathematics
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Pythagorean theorem
In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem or Pythagoras' theorem is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry between the three sides of a right triangle. It states that the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse (the side opposite t ...
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Pythagorean triple
A Pythagorean triple consists of three positive integers , , and , such that . Such a triple is commonly written , a well-known example is . If is a Pythagorean triple, then so is for any positive integer . A triangle whose side lengths are a Py ...
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Pythagorean prime
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Pythagorean trigonometric identity
The Pythagorean trigonometric identity, also called simply the Pythagorean identity, is an identity expressing the Pythagorean theorem in terms of trigonometric functions. Along with the sum-of-angles formulae, it is one of the basic relations ...
* Table of Pythagoras, another name for the
multiplication table
Music
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Pythagorean comma
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Pythagorean hammers
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Pythagorean tuning
Other uses
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Pythagorean cup
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Pythagorean expectation, a baseball statistical term
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Pythagorean letter
See also
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List of things named after Pythagoras
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