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Pythagoras

Pythagoras

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Named sage of a later Pythagorean tradition: Iamblichus lives, Euclidean theorem-heading, Capitoline marble, UNESCO Samos. Almost no autograph. Documented harms: Croton violence as late story, akousmata, school secrecy, mis-attributed theorem-name.

Later brotherhood tradition of akousmata and harmoniatheorem as Euclidean school heading not autographsource-limit honesty as the modern public entry

Impact

Not rated yet: the verified records linked to this person, without a numeric impact.

Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The page is not a marble mathematician and not a verified 570 BCE birth. The heaviest documented costs in later public record are source-gap itself, Croton violence as late story, akousmata, and a theorem-name that is Euclidean. The offsets are SEP honesty, public Euclid, mass geometry, and UNESCO Samos.

He did not file 1992. Committees and editors did that work. Confidence is high on those modern pages, low on 6th-century violence numbers. Later lives and Euclid remain the dated record.

Indicators affected

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Accountability & contradictions

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Claimed

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Responsibility

What could change this assessment

  • 4 linked facts have no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (1905–2006).

Causal path

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  1. PersonPythagoras
  2. FactThe Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy publishes a public Pythagoras entry
  3. DriverDigital Learning Access
  1. PersonPythagoras
  2. FactClay Mathematics Institute places a public Euclid as a digital scholarly object
  3. DriverDigital Learning Access
  1. PersonPythagoras
  2. FactModern archaic-Greece handbooks print South Italian cities as slaveholding, the school’s economic air
  3. DriverLabour-Market Tightness

Timeline

The most relevant dated facts, newest first.

  1. 1 January 2006 · Digital Learning Access

    The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy publishes a public Pythagoras entry

  2. 1 January 2000 · Digital Learning Access

    Clay Mathematics Institute places a public Euclid as a digital scholarly object

  3. 1 December 1999 · Labour-Market Tightness

    Modern archaic-Greece handbooks print South Italian cities as slaveholding, the school’s economic air

  4. 1 September 1999 · Income Inequality

    Modern accounts print the school as an elite male club in a wealthy colonial city

  5. 1 August 1999 · Digital Learning Access

    MacTutor’s public biography stresses legendary layers around the name

  6. 1 June 1999 · Institutional Corruption

    Modern encyclopedia entries print a secretive school as the received organisation

Evidence & methodology

How the record is sourced and how the score is derived.

31 of 31 linked facts verified, drawing on 11 distinct sources (1905–2006).

Sources include Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Clay Mathematics Institute, Cambridge University Press, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, University of St Andrews, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, NCTM, Roma Capitale / Musei Capitolini.

Sources (showing 8 of 11)

  1. 1.Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras — public-domain EnglishProject Gutenberg
  2. 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — PythagorasStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  3. 3.National Council of Teachers of MathematicsNCTM
  4. 4.Clay Mathematics Institute — Euclid’s ElementsClay Mathematics Institute
  5. 5.UNESCO — Pythagoreion and Heraion of SamosUNESCO World Heritage Centre
  6. 6.Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — PythagorasInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  7. 7.Cambridge Companion to Archaic GreeceCambridge University Press
  8. 8.MacTutor — Pythagoras of SamosUniversity of St Andrews

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 11

Expert analysis

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The first fact about Pythagoras is a gap. Stanford at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoras/ (opens in a new tab) and https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoreanism/ (opens in a new tab) and MacTutor at https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pythagoras/ (opens in a new tab) state that later lives, not autographs, are the file. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pythagoras (opens in a new tab) agrees. This catalog therefore refuses a 570 BCE birth Fact as if it were a civil-registry row.

Gutenberg Iamblichus at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12868 (opens in a new tab) prints Croton violence as tradition (low confidence on numbers), akousmata, silence, wonder-working authority, communal crowding. School Euclid at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0086 (opens in a new tab) and Britannica’s theorem page at https://www.britannica.com/science/Pythagorean-theorem (opens in a new tab) attach a proof to a name. NCTM at https://www.nctm.org/ (opens in a new tab) marks the modern classroom in which that name is a badge and a lesson. Cambridge archaic Greece at https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-archaic-greece/ (opens in a new tab) frames slaveholding cities as the air.

The offsets are dated honesty and access. SEP and IEP at https://iep.utm.edu/pythagor/ (opens in a new tab) warn. Clay Euclid at https://www.claymath.org/euclid/ (opens in a new tab) and Perseus make demonstration copyable. UNESCO Samos at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/595/ (opens in a new tab) conserves the island of the received origin. Capitoline museums at https://www.museicapitolini.org/en (opens in a new tab) present a later marble type (this avatar). Mass geometry class is industrial knowledge policy.

What the score must not say: that he proved Euclid I.47 as a dated autograph; that 570 BCE is a file; that Iamblichus is a witness with a notebook; that a 1992 listing is his harbour works. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on SEP/Euclid/UNESCO as public objects, low on Croton numbers and on diet as medicine.

Related people are Iamblichus as later biographer, Euclid as later Elements author, Plato as later user of Pythagorean headings.

1905 English Iamblichus is not 530 BCE. 1992 is UNESCO. 1950 is a textbook. The useful question is which later public pages still move secrecy, classrooms, and fake precision under his name.

Questions

Is Pythagoras under sanctions?

Yes. 15 December 1905: Later lives print expulsions of the school as a civic embargo of a club (Project Gutenberg).

Does Pythagoras face an ICC warrant or criminal charges?

1 August 1905: Later lives print years of silence as a novitiate discipline.

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