This is the story of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, whose insights
transformed the ancient world and still inspire the realms of science,
mathematics, philosophy and the arts. Einstein said that the most
incredible thing about our universe was that it was comprehensible at
all. As Kitty Ferguson explains, Pythagoras had much the same idea -
but 2,500 years earlier. Though known by many only for his famous
Theorem, in fact the pillars of our scientific tradition - belief that
the universe is rational, that there is unity to all things, and that
numbers and mathematics are a powerful guide to truth about nature and
the cosmos - hark back to the convictions of this legendary scholar.
Kitty Ferguson brilliantly evokes Pythagoras' ancient world of,
showing how ideas spread in antiquity, and chronicles the incredible
influence he and his followers have had on so many extraordinary
people in the history of Western thought and science. 'Pythagoras'
influence on the ideas, and therefore on the destiny, of the human
race was probably greater than that of any single man before or after
him' - Arthur Koestler.
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ISBN
9781848312500
Publisert
2015
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Icon Books Ltd
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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