Pythagoras of Samos

Question 1

Who was known as the father of numbers?

Answer 1

Pythagoras of Samos

Question 2

What is Pythagoras best known for?

Answer 2

The Pythagorean Theorem

Question 3

Who did Pythagorean ideas influence?

Answer 3

Plato

Question 4

According to Iamblichus, Pythagoras once said what?

Answer 4

“number is the ruler of forms and ideas and the cause of gods and demons”

Question 5

Pythagoras was the first man to call himself what?

Answer 5

A philosopher, a lover of wisdom

Question 6

What was Pythagoras’ first principle of reality?

Answer 6

numbers and proportion

Question 7

Pythagoras and his students believed that everything was related to what?

Answer 7

Everything was related to mathematics.

Question 8

Pythagoras and his students believed that everything could be predicted and measured how?

Answer 8

In rhythmic patterns or cycles

Question 9

Pythagoras’ name is associated with what?

Answer 9

Pythian Apollo (The Delphic oracle) Aristippus explained “he spoke the truth no less than did the Pythian)