Pythagoras and the early Pythagoreans /

In ancient tradition, Pythagoras emerges as a wise teacher, an outstanding mathematician, an influential politician, and as a religious and ethical reformer. This volume offers a study of Pythagoras, Pythagoreanism, and the early Pythagoreans through an analysis of the many representations of the in...

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Online Access:Electronic book from Oxford Scholarship Online
Main Author: Zhmudʹ, L. I͡A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Russian
Published:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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505 0 |a Introduction: The Pythagorean question : problems, methods, and sources -- 1. The early tradition on Pythagoras and its development -- 2. Biography : sources, facts, and legends -- 3. Who were the Pythagoreans? -- 4. The Pythagorean communities -- 5. Mathematici and Acusmatici : the Pythagorean "symbols" -- 6. Shamanism and metempsychosis -- 7. Mathematics -- 8. Harmonics and acoustics -- 9. Astronomy -- 10. Medicine and life sciences -- 11. Pythagorean philosophies -- 12. Pythagorean number doctrine in the Academy and Lyceum. 
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