Pythagoras: The Mathematician Who Reformed Ancient Greece | Genius | Odyssey
Published 2024-01-12
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All Comments (21)
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Pythagoras was an amazing human.
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Good episode, important person - thank you
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Well, if you take into account he went to egypt and looked upon the Pyramids with wonder, and noticed they were nearly perfect, he probably wondered how they did it, or asked someone. You can get an idea of why he started thinking beyond a ruler and a straight line lol
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This channel has all the best content . . . I try to tune in daily
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1:35 - You can see he's British by the way how smoothly he switches from describing exercises , to getting wasted with drugs. This guy was precisely selected for this part. He mindfagged me and I almost didn't notice
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Thank you š
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A Brian Blessed narrated documentary ? I'm in!!!!!!
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good work
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As someone who never even managed long division, I have zero clue as to why I am watching this!
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The "actor" who plays Pythagoras during the reenactment scenes was given no script and every scene was done after one take.
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I love him.
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I appreciate mathematics because I like Roman art and architecture. That was one of the reasons I chose maths at uni. I adore all architecture in Europe and Australia in Roman style including legends, statues and drawings in relation to Ancient Rome.
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The video, at quick glance, doesn't look it has ANYTHING TO DO WITH GREECE. Looks like Egypt to me.
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The video seems to indicate that there were specific "writings" of Pythagoras and that Plato and Aristotle had access to these writings, but I can't find any source to support that claim. Wiki is quite exhaustive on Pythagoras and it says some scholars attribute the mathmatical achievements to others, possibly his followers, and that the real Pythagoras himself was more like the social reformer and mystic. Not to detract from his massive influence over the centuries.
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Pretty sure the Babylonians and Egyptians were aware of the properties of right triangles before Pythagoras' name was attached to this, and the presentation of it as his creation kind of puts a pall on anything else said in this documentary.
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I find it intriguing that youāre sharing a perspective I hadnāt heard before. Generally, I think of Pythagoras as a kook, an overbearing cult leader.
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So the man who feared not death, attempted to flee from getting murdered? The single greatest part of this documentary š
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Thanks for all the great content on this channel. Yelling into the wind, though, I urge all documentarians of history to forego the use of reenactments. They are deceptive, never accurate and very expensive. In their place please show the art and artifacts that are more relevant and more interesting. Thank you.
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Okay
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HOW MUCH TO DO......... HOW MUCH TO THINK............ THERE IS NOT TIME TO LOOSE...........
