Pythagoras. Surikov I.E.

The name of the ancient Greek scientist Pythagoras is known to everyone from the school bench. But the proof of the famous theorem about the square of the hypotenuse as the sum of the squares of the legs is only a small of the much that this amazing person gave the world. The thinker and philosopher (by the way, the first to introduce the words “philosopher” and “philosophy”), a religious figure who developed the doctrine of “metempsichosis” - the resettlement of souls, mystic and the prophet, whom the students were seriously perceived as a demigod, he was one of the largest. figures of the Greek "intellectual revolution." But in the course of this revolution, in fact, the foundation was created on which our civilization is still based. The fate of Pythagoras and his ideas, as well as about Hellas of his time, is told by the book of an specialist in ancient culture, Doctor of Historical Sciences I.E. Surikova. For students and teachers of historical, philosophical, cultural specialties and all those interested in history and philosophy of antiquity.