570 BC

Events in 570 BC 2

• 570 BC – 495 BC Pythagoras The Mathematician Founded a secretive religious-philosophical sect; believed the universe was governed by numbers.
• 570 BC – 495 BC Pythagoras Greek mathematician, philosopher, and mystic who founded the Pythagorean Brotherhood Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570 - c. 495 BC) was an Ionian Greek philosopher and mathematician whose teachings fused rigorous number theory with religious mysticism. He founded a secretive philosophical and religious movement at Croton in southern Italy that held mathematics, music, and the soul's transmigration to be intimately linked. Though he left no writings of his own, later tradition credited him with the theorem bearing his name, the discovery of numerical ratios underlying musical harmony, and the doctrine that "all is number." His school shaped the trajectory of Greek mathematics, influenced Plato and the Academy, and left a legacy that echoes through Western science, music theory, and esoteric thought to this day.