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Pythagoras

Pythagoras

His Lives and the Legacy of a Rational Universe

by Kitty Ferguson
Paperback
Publication Date: 03/03/2011

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Pythagoras' influence on the ideas, and therefore on the destiny, of the human race was probably greater than that of any single man before or after him. - Arthur Koestler

Einstein said that the most incredible thing about our universe was that it was comprehensible at all. As Kitty Ferguson explains, Pygthagoras had much the same idea - but 2,500 years earlier. Although known by many only for his famous Theorem, in fact the pillars of our scientific tradition - belief that the universe is rational, that there is unity to all things, and that numbers and mathematics are a powerful guide to truth about nature and the cosmos - hark back to the convictions of this legendary scholar.

Kitty Ferguson brilliantly evokes the ancient world of Pythagoras, showing how ideas spread in antiquity. She chronicles the incredible influence he and his followers have had on so many extraordinary people in the history of Western thought and science.
ISBN:
9781848312319
9781848312319
Category:
History of science
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-03-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Icon Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
368
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x23mm
Weight:
0.31kg
Kitty Ferguson

Kitty Ferguson was born in San Antonio, Texas. She studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York and was for many years a successful professional musician, conducting and performing oratorio, early music and chamber music. In 1986 she moved to England where her husband was a Visiting Fellow and later Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University.

During this and many subsequent periods of residence at Cambridge, Kitty Ferguson audited graduated lectures and seminars in the Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics and got to know some of the legendary figures in those fields, including Stephen Hawking. In 1987 she retired from music to devote herself full time to writing about science.

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