But the ancient Greeks certainly had numbers. In fact, they had what was in some ways a much more elegant system than the ...

Experts believe the ancient Greek philosopher may have heard about the theorem by word of mouth and popularized it - but still made it his own. Legend has it that Pythagoras discovered 'his ...

Greek philosopher and mathematician ... if his famous theorem deserves his name — Ancient Babylonians may be more deserving. We do know Pythagoras was influential, and his legacy is still ...

Around the age of 40 or so, Pythagoras headed west to southern Italy, settling in the Greek colony town of Croton. There he initiated a new phase of ancient science, mixing religion, music and ...

An ancient Greek belief about the most pleasing combinations of musical notes – often attributed to the philosopher Pythagoras – doesn’t actually reflect the way people around the world ...

A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has revealed that the ancient Babylonians understood the Pythagorean theorem more than 1,000 years before the birth of the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, who is widely ...