He founded the Pythagorean brotherhood, a group of his followers whose beliefs and ideas were rediscovered during the Renaissance and contributed to the development of mathematics and Western rational philosophy. ... He settled in Crotona, a Greek colony in southern Italy, about 530 BC. ... He went to Metapontum, a Greek city in southern Italy. ... His Pythagorean brotherhood's beliefs and ideas were rediscovered during the Renaissance and contributed to the development of mathematics and Western rational philosophy. ... He was a very important figure in the development of mathematics....

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Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher and is often described as the first pure mathematician. ... He was a Greek philosopher who made an imperative expansion in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, and the theory of music. ... Thales was a very old man who shared his will and his knowledge to Pythagoras; he is often credited for getting Pythagoras interested in mathematics and astronomy. ... He was the first Greek to realize that the morning star and evening star were both the planet Venus. ...

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Throughout the years, the history of mathematics has taken its fair share of changes. ... Moving along the historical timeline, the Greeks were the next prominent mathematics society. ... Continuing the Greek methods were the Hindu mathematicians. ... Italian scholars and critics of this period proclaimed that their age had progressed beyond the barbarism of the past and had found its inspiration, and its closest parallel, in the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. A new phase of mathematics began in Italy around 1500. ...

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