Pythagoras was born on the Greek island of Samos in the 6th century BC. He received a privileged education and traveled to Egypt and Persia where he developed his ideas in mathematics and philosophy. He settled in Crotone, Italy, where he founded a school. His many students and followers were called the Pythagoreans and under the guidance of Pythagoras, lived a very structured life with strict rules.
The Pythagoreans discovered the famous theorem, which is named after Pythagoras, and the existence of irrational numbers, which cannot be written down as a fraction or a terminating decimal. Such numbers cannot be measured exactly with a ruler with fractional parts and were thought to be unnatural. The Pythagorans called these numbers 'unutterable' numbers and it is believed that any member of the brotherhood who mentioned these numbers in public would be put to death.
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