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毕达哥拉斯及其学派的故事(国外英语资料) The story of Pythagoras and his school Pythagoras (Pythagoras, BC 580 ~ 500) was born in Samos (now eastern Greece Island), he is the famous Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, Pythagoras sect also engaged in the political, religious activities and scientific research leaders. Among the early mathematicians of ancient Greece, Pythagoras was the greatest influence. He has many important contributions in mathematics, for example: in geometry, the Pythagoreans proved the interior angles of a triangle equals two right angles judgment, the golden section; found five angle and similar polygon approach; that is only five - faceted tetrahedron and hexahedron, eight face body, twelve sided and twenty sided. When young, Pythagoras, like other rich children, went to Babylon and Egypt to study, so he was influenced and nurtured by the eastern civilization. After returning home, Pythagoras founded a secret academic community of politics, religion, and mathematics, the Pythagorean school. This school has some strange looks out of the ordinary canons, their activities are secret, and in sect was shrouded in a mysterious atmosphere of the unbelievable. It is said that the school also has rules that each new student must swear to keep it secret and only join the school for life. And to all inventions belong to the school leaders, and should be kept strictly confidential and can not tell others, so that in the study of this school achievement during the later generations, dont know some knowledge of who is invented. Because of the churchs canon law is the political, religious and mathematical research activities are intertwined, it is difficult to understand why the descendants of mathematical research activities and achievements into secret work. The Pythagorean School holds that numbers are the noblest and most mysterious, and the numbers they speak refer to integers. All things are numbers, that is to say, the relations among the universe can be exp