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Pythagorean Revolution: Numbers & Women by Jake Alarcon is a document available to read on EtoBox.

1. The Pythagoreans, led by Pythagoras in the 6th century BC, were among the first to use rational thinking and mathematics to understand the world rather than relying on myth and magic. 2. They believed numbers were the essential material of all things and studied properties of numbers. 3. A key discovery was irrational numbers, which disrupted their worldview that all could be explained by whole numbers.

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Jake Alarcon

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