Pythagoras of Samos was one of the most influential mathematicians in ancient time. He was a Greek philosopher and mathematician who was born in Samos, Ionia at about 580B.C.
He had a teacher who was a philosopher called Thales, but since Pythagoras went to study more in Egypt, Thales couldn't teach him any more. In Pythagoras' teenage time, he started to known for his philosophic ideas, and he is also good in maths, astronomy and music.
In 532B.C. he left Samos and moved to Croton because of the tyranny who ruled Samos. After he moved to Croton, he soon find a girl named Theano who he loved, married and lived with him for the rest of his life.
In Croton, he found a philosophical and religious school that had lots of followers. They made lots of mathematical, astronomy and musical contributions, they recognised the Earth was a sphere and the orbit of the moon was inclined to the equator of the Earth, and his school was the first one to realise that Venus is both evening and morning star. They also discovered the preforming geometrical calculation while they were listening to the sound of the musical instrument.
Pythagoras died in Metapontum, Lucania. After he died, some of his ideas were completely disregarded and forgotten. No one knows how many things did they proof, but all of their works are very important for us today.
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