What they don’t tell you at school about Pythagoras

They’ll tell you a lot of stuff about Pythagoras at school, like:

Pythagoras

  • He worked out that in a right angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides: that’s Pythagorean Theorem
  • Pythagoras is often referred to as the first pure mathematician.
  • He was born on the island of Samos, Greece in 569 BC.
  • Pythagoras was well educated, and he played the lyre throughout his lifetime, knew poetry and recited Homer. He was interested in mathematics, philosophy, astronomy and music, and was greatly influenced by Pherekydes (philosophy), Thales (mathematics and astronomy) and Anaximander (philosophy, geometry).

But they probably won’t tell you that:

vegetarian pythagoras

And “Pythagorean diet” was a common name for the abstention from eating meat and fish, until the coining of “vegetarian” in the 19th century.

Stick that in your triangle and measure it!! 🙂

19 responses to “What they don’t tell you at school about Pythagoras”

  1. Shannon Avatar

    Ha! Indeed. Stick that into your triangle…haha! Pythagoras got me through engineering school. If I ever forgot a formula, I could always derive it by just knowing a bit of trigonometry. You’re awesome, Violet.

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    1. Violet of Violet's Veg*n e-comics Avatar

      I used to love trigonometry too – and I’m sure it had nothing to do with the dreamy maths teacher 😀

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  2. Carol Avatar

    I shared this with a math-teacher, vegetarian friend!

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    1. Violet of Violet's Veg*n e-comics Avatar

      Excellent! Perhaps he/she will share it with his/her students 🙂

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  3. Carl D'Agostino Avatar

    Also known as Father of Psychiatry. One of first early thinkers to posit the center of thinking was the brain not the heart and that mental illness was caused by some sort of brain dysfunction. As therapy he recommended stimulating conversation, long walks, hot baths and diet of vegetables and fruits.

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    1. Violet of Violet's Veg*n e-comics Avatar

      Fascinating. Thanks Carl, that’s a great addition to this post 😀

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  4. Violet of Violet's Veg*n e-comics Avatar

    Reblogged this on Violet's Veg*n e-Comics and commented:

    And while we’re on the subject of what they don’t tell you at school …

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  5. smilecalm Avatar

    I imagine him gracefully declining the Turkey
    to his relatives, with a smile
    on Thanksgiving 🙂

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    1. Uncle Guacamole Avatar

      I don’t think they had turkey in ancient Greece, although they certainly visited Turkey, just across the strait.

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