Reply #79: Good link on Pythagoras and his school.

[dimbear]

http://www.mathsisgoodforyou.com/topicsPages/pythagoreans/brotherhood.htm


They do seem religious, living in their cells and eating a special diet, largely beans.

It looks like it was Pythagoras who brought the holy number 60 back from Babylon, (or maybe some other Greek chap,) but it's worth remembering the gods of Babylon every time you look at a watch or a clock or a protractor or a sextant or a globe.