It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

An Un-Illustrated History Of Pythagoras

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 The first Think Tank  of the Western World 
 existed five hundred years before 
 the birth of Jesus Christ.

 It can also be said that  the first Street Gang
 of the western world also existed
 five hundred years before 
 the birth of Jesus Christ.

 The Pythagoreans wore black cloaks with hoodies.

They had both a secret language and a special symbol.


(Their "gang" symbol was a pentangle
 with five equal sides.)
 
 They also commit murder.

 But they only murdered their own:
 anyone who violated the code of silence.

 Their leader was born in Greece
 on the island of Samos.                                                 His image is HERE

 But the gang think tank–
 pre-dating the Roman Empire–
 was based on Italian soil
(then called Croton).    

 Pythagoreans were partially the equivalent 
 of a high school Math Club whose membership
 was not limited to a nationality or a gender.

 Country of origin meant diddly-squat.

  Gender or social status meant diddley-squat.

 The talents of the brain meant everything!

 Numbers were their calling cards:

         One  was unity

         Two   was the female


         Three  was the male.


         Four is square 
         and symbolized shape

         Five is  2+3
         and symbolized marriage. 

   Music made them muscular
  and mystery made everyone else jealous.

  Music and math go together
  like Yes and Yes

"To Think is the Thing..."
  the Pythagoreans did sing.

  The olive branch was their salad bar
  with lots of unadulterated Greek yogurt. 

  They were the first vegetarian society to outlaw beans.

  They were also the first people to be exterminated.

  But only six were Jewish.
  
  Seven were African.

  Eight were Arabs

  Nine were Oriental.

  The thirty-seven others were Greek.

  All were killed by those
  in need of knowledge and wisdom.

  They did invent a reason 
  for everyone to hate Math.
  
  They were said to invent music
  but that is not true.

  The Pythagoreans just enabled others 
  to take credit for doing so.

  They didn't invent philosophy
  but they were the first to give it a name.
  
  Pythagoras was the first man 
  to fully understand astronomy.
 
  The Brotherhood of Pythagoreans 
  discovered the first computers: 
  inside their very own heads.
   
  Slightly less ancient Greeks
  named Plato, Socrates, and Aristlotle
  all agree that no one influenced them 
  more than  Pythagoras.

  Their reasons were as simple as
   A squared plus B squared equals C squared.

  They probably said that in Greek
  a language I do not speak.

  But I do eat a lot of yogurt.

 

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Footnotes
AN UN-ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF PYTHAGORAS
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.

Better minds than ours  have said all of the above.
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