Pythagoras believed in reincarnation, remembered his past lives, and saw the soul as deeply connected to the cosmos.

If you remember little else from high school geometry, you probably remember the Pythagorean Theorem: The square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other ...

Pythagoras held that there are three sorts of men, just as there are three classes of strangers who go to the Olympic games. There are the lovers of gain who come to buy and sell, the lovers of honour ...

For the Pythagoras cult, this had a tragic aspect. Scholars dispute about the precise beliefs of Pythagoras and his followers, but agree that they included a mystical conviction that numbers ...

Back in high school geometry class, I learned the Pythagorean Theorem, a2 + b2= c2. As a teenager, I would’ve bet I’d never enjoy a novel based on Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician for whom the ...