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The Life of Mathematicians Mathematicians are people who use a very advanced level of mathematics and technological inventions in order to develop new advances in the mathematical field. Some of the most famous mathematicians were Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Pythagoras and many more others that had great minds. Isaac Newton Just as I mentioned before, Isaac Newton was one of the greatest mathematicians in the world many years ago. He was not only a mathematician but a scientist and an English physicist. Isaac Newton was born December 25, 1642 at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire. Newton's father died three months before he was born and his mother married Reverend Barnabas Smith when he was just three years …show more content…

570 to ca. 490 BCE. Most of his young life was lived on an island called Samos, which is located off the coast of what is nowadays modern Turkey. When Pythagoras was about forty years old, he transferred to a city named Croton which is in southern Italy and that is where the majority of his philosophical work took place in. As mentioned before, one of his most famous achievements was the Pythagorean Theorem. The Pythagorean Theorem says that the addition of the squared lengths of the other two sides of any RIGHT triangle will be equivalent to the length of the hypotenuse and the equation used is a^2+b^2=c^2. It is unknown how Pythagoras proved the theorem because he refused for his teachings to be recorded in writing. And, even though Pythagoras came up with this theorem he was not only a mathematician but also a philosopher, he believed that the world was ruled by harmony and that numerous relationships could best showcase that harmony. Pythagoras’s followers had to swear absolute secrecy and they had to followed a strict moral and ethical code, which also including the practice of being a vegetarian because of their belief of the reincarnation of the

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