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MacTutor’s public biography stresses legendary layers around the name

St Andrews MacTutor is a completed public-history-of-maths page that marks late sources. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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St Andrews MacTutor is a completed public-history-of-maths page that marks late sources. The dated carrier is that URL. Honesty about legend is an access path.

Context

A university history page is not Iamblichus, and not a birth certificate.

Pythagoras is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

MacTutor is a scholarly access path, not a Croton archive.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Pythagoras

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.19 · verified

    Named sage as heading of later school reports. Iamblichus, Euclid’s editors, and later math teachers publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.MacTutor — Pythagoras of SamosUniversity of St Andrews · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — PythagorasStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorPythagoras
  2. contributed toFactMacTutor’s public biography stresses legendary layers around the name
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

Cite this page

Factrail. (2026). MacTutor’s public biography stresses legendary layers around the name. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/py-mactutor-honesty

https://factrail.ai/facts/py-mactutor-honesty

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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