title: The Babylonian Theorem: The Mathematical Journey to Pythagoras and Euclid
author: Peter S. Rudman
description: Peter S. Rudman (Tel Aviv, Israel), a retired professor of physics at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, is the author of How Mathematics Happened: The First 50,000 Years, which was selected in 2008 as an Outstanding Academic Text by the American Library Association.
zlib_text: The Music of Pythagoras
  How an Ancient Brotherhood Cracked
   
  the Code of the Universe and Lit the Path
   
  from Antiquity to Outer Space.
  KITTY FERGUSON
  
  Contents
  Cover
  Title Page
  Map
  Lifetimes and Other Significant Dates
  PART I: SIXTH CENTURY B.C.
  0. “At the hinge of legend and history”
  1. The Long-haired Samian
  2. “Entirely different from the institutions of the Greeks”
  3. “Among them was a man of immense knowledge”
  4. “My true race is of Heaven”
  5. “All things known have number”
  6. “The Famous Figure of Pythagoras”
  PART II: FIFTH CENTURY B.C.–SEVENTH CENTURY A.D.
  7. A Book by Philolaus the Pythagorean
  8. Plato’s Search for Pythagoras
  9. “The ancients, our superiors, who dwelt nearer to the gods, have
  passed this word on to us”
  10. From Aristotle to Euclid
  11. The Roman Pythagoras
  12. Through Neo-Pythagorean and Ptolemaic Eyes
  13. The Wrap-up of Antiquity
  PART III: EIGHTH–TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES A.D.
  
  14. “Dwarfs on the shoulders of giants”: Pythagoras in the Middle Ages
  15. “Wherein Na