| The Garden of Archimedes
A Museum for Mathematics
Pythagoras and his theorem
Scientist and shaman, legislator and oligarch, performer of miracles and philosopher (in fact, inventor of the term philosophy itself), magician and lecturer, liberator of cities and musician, father of Greek rationality and heir to the esoteric knowledge of the East. This founder of Mathematics is remembered mainly for a theorem discovered ten centuries before he was born and probably not demonstrated until after his death. Pythagoras.
A section of the Museum is dedicated to the discovery or rediscovery of
more or less well known aspects of his theorem.
"Mwanasayansi na shaman, mwanasheria na oligarch, mtendaji wa miujiza na mwanafalsafa (kwa kweli, mvumbuzi wa neno falsafa yenyewe), mchawi na mhadhiri, mkombozi wa miji na mwanamuziki, baba wa akili ya Kigiriki na mrithi wa maarifa ya siri ya Mashariki.""" Mwanzilishi wa hesabu huyo anakumbukwa hasa kwa sababu ya nadharia aliyoigundua karne kumi kabla ya kuzaliwa kwake na ambayo huenda haikuonyeshwa hadi baada ya kifo chake. Pythagoras. Sehemu ya Makumbusho ni wakfu kwa ugunduzi au rediscovery ya zaidi au chini ya kujulikana mambo ya nadharia yake.