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much information about Pythagoras 2,500 years ago. They too believe that
and his followers. There are no known the universe can be entirely understood
books authored by Pythagoras himself. through mathematical equations.
Philolaus of Croton, one of the three most
prominent figures in the Pythagorean In Pythagoras, we find a rare blend
tradition, born a century after Pythagoras, of the mathematician and the mystic,
authored a book titled On Nature. This the scientist and the spiritual seeker.
book is believed to be the first written by a Stories and legends about his life invite
Pythagorean and serves as the earliest text us to explore the profound connections
describing the numerological and musical between the seen and the unseen, the
theories later attributed to Pythagoras. quantifiable and the immeasurable,
urging us to look beyond the apparent
It’s worth noting that modern physicists, in dichotomy of science and spirituality.
their quest for a ‘theory of everything’ or
‘grand unification,’ are, in essence, walking By Katerina Belik
the path laid down by Pythagoras some
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