Pythagorean Thinking

Pythagorean Thinking There is a young boy named Jimmy sitting at his desk in his home. Jimmy is a freshman in high school aspiring to attend college and become successful in life. Jimmy is attempting to complete his geometry homework while he is listening to the new Three Doors Down album. Does Jimmy realize that the geometry he is calculating and even the music he is listening to were both highly influenced by one man …

…dynamic force in Western culture. It has creatively influenced philosophers, theologians, mathematicians, and astronomers, as well as musicians, composers, and poets. Pythagoras himself simply mathematized his life and was the leader to many great advancements. “He had discovered a connection between arithmetic and aesthetics, between the natural world and the human soul. Perhaps the same unifying principle could be applied elsewhere; and where better to try then with the puzzle of the heavens themselves” (Ferrera 267).