As the new year begins, ancient wisdom from Pythagoras reminds us that simple words like 'yes' and 'no' require deep thought.

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

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 ...

The most important theorem we learnt in childhood carries the name of a Greek philosopher, but not necessarily the legacy.

The famous ancient site at Stonehenge may have been built using Greek philosopher Pythagoras’ famous theorem two millennia before the mathematical equation was developed, experts say. A new book ...

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We learn all we know about the author of the famous theorem in "chapter zero" of Kitty Ferguson's book. An Ionian Greek by origin, Pythagoras of Samos emigrated to the West when the advance of the ...

Most every kid learns a² + b² = c² in math. Pythagoras, right? Wrong. Babylonians used trigonometry 1,000 years before the Greeks. Time to rewrite history? This unassuming clay tablet may yet turn the ...