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Pythagoras: the Father of Numbers

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Pythagoras: the Father of Numbers
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	challenging words:		choosy, cosmology, hypotenuse, lyre, right-angled, semicircle, philosophical, morality, philosopher, universe, society, parchment, geometry, philosophy, widely, papyrus
	content words:		Pythagorean Theorem

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Pythagoras: the Father of Numbers By Mary Lynn Bushong

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¹     Why is it hard to learn about people who lived a long time ago? Records were difficult to preserve. Clay tablets were easily broken, while papyrus, paper, and parchment could be destroyed any number of ways.
 
²     While many facts about Pythagoras are not certain, some are fairly well established. He was born between 580 and 572 BC on the Greek island of Samos. His mother, Pythais, was a native of Samos, while his father, Mnesarchus, was a Phoenician merchant.
 
³     It is thought that Pythagoras traveled widely with his father. Some stories about Pythagoras have him staying in Tyre, his father's home city.
 
⁴     As a child and young man, he was taught music and played the lyre well. He was also taught poetry, philosophy, and math. Three of the philosopher tutors who had a great influence on his own ideas were Pherekydes, Thales, and Anaximander.
 
⁵     Through those three men, Pythagoras became interested in cosmology and mathematics. Later he was encouraged to travel to Egypt to build on his knowledge. There they had perfected the use of geometry.

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