Quote of the Day: Pythagoras was a 6th-century BCE Greek philosopher and mathematician who founded a communal, esoteric society in Croton, Italy. While historically credited with introducing the geometric relationship between the sides of a right triangle to the Greek world, the mathematical principle itself was already documented centuries earlier by Babylonian and Indian scribes.
His community operated under strict rules of secrecy, self-discipline, and communal property, viewing mathematical ratios as the underlying structure of the cosmos. His teachings on the immortality and transmigration of the soul heavily influenced subsequent classical philosophers, most notably Plato.
