Pythagoras ( 582BC - 500 BC), was a Greek philosopher and mathematician. Born on the island of Sámos, Pythagoras was instructed in the teachings of early Ionian philosophers including Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes. Pythagoras is said to have been driven from Sámos because of his disgust for the tyranny of Polycrates. About 530 BC, after leaving Sámos, Pythagoras settled in Crotona, a Greek colony in southern Italy, where he founded a movement with religious, political, and philosophical aims, known as Pythagoreanism. This movem
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