NUMBER IS THE CAUSE OF GODS AND DEMONS

– Pythagoras

Introduction

The time period around 1800 BCE was the period when Babylonians tried to introduce Pythagoras’s triplets, but they were not explained or reasoned. Just the numbers like 3, 4, and 5 were declared as Pythagoras triplets just because the square of the addition of 2 numbers equals the square of the third number. Later, it was co-related with the right-angle triangle by Pythagoras. After this discovery, many philosophers used this to formulate and come up with new concepts related set of primitive Pythagoras triplets.

Let’s know this Philosopher

Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher and most famous mathematician. A person is responsible for many achievements attributed to him in math, science, astronomy, music, and medicine. He also founded the exclusive community, which lived for the pursuit of mathematics and philosophy. As he was fond of traveling to various countries, he took his philosophies across the oceans which helped him to learn many things.

Discovery of the hero

The famous mathematical theorem of Pythagoras i.e., the Pythagorean theorem was discovered 600-500 BCE. Pythagoras knew that the sum of all the angles of a triangle is 180degree and in the case of a right-angle triangle, it’s 90degree + the sum of the other 2 angles of the triangle(90degree). This led to the formula with which Pythagoras was associated primarily that helped to describe the relationship between the sides of the triangle. The theorem of a² + b²= c² is widely known as Pythagoras theorem where c represents the length of hypotenuse with sides a and b representing the other 2 short sides adjacent to the right-angle. For example, the sides adjacent to the right angle are 5cm and 12cm with the hypotenuse side 13cm satisfying the equation as 5²+12²=13² (25+144=169). Here, the set 5,12, and13 is primitive Pythagoras triplets as don’t share any common divisor whereas the set 6,8, and 10 is a non-primitive Pythagoras triplet as they do share a common divisor 2.

Legacy of Pythagoras

Pythagoras’s status as the most famous mathematician from the antiquity is justified by his distribution with the followings: –

• Geometry– The famous concept of Pythagoras theorem and triplets, followed by the redevelopment in this concept popularly known as platonic solids. He also had a great interest in different types of numbers known as perfect numbers.

• Music– He found that the numerical pattern in the music and shapes led to some great ancient musical instruments. He also found the vibrating strings producing the frequency f. He constructed a musical scale, starting with one note and the note an octave above it, filling in the notes between using perfect fifths.

Conclusion

Pythagoras had his expertise in the fields of geometry, number theory, and music. His contribution to these fields is priceless. The concepts derived by Pythagoras were never his own ideas but his vision to develop a particular concept gives us the lesson to learn new things and add our expertise to any subject.