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>>17428079
Why even post when you wont say anything substantive?

How did he invent western buddhism and Platonism and science from scrap?
Where did he get his ideas?

>he eats beans
ngmi

Please recommend some books on mathematics. If possible in progressing order (from the most basic algebra and geometry, to the most complex fields in mathematics).

Fucking bean-eating degenerates

Reminder.
>Ancient sources disagree on how the Greek philosopher Pythagoras died,[12][13] but one late and probably apocryphal legend reported by both Diogenes Laërtius, a third-century AD biographer of famous philosophers, and Iamblichus, a Neoplatonist philosopher, states that Pythagoras was murdered by his political enemies.[13] Supposedly, he almost managed to outrun them,[13] but he came to a bean field and refused to run through it because he had prohibited beans as ritually unclean.[14][13] Since cutting through the field would violate his own teachings, Pythagoras simply stopped running and was killed.[13]

What are your thoughts on this big guy?

I can't make sense of Pythagoras, pls help.

Pythagoras' philosophy, from what I've read so far, is based on the following main statements:
-Our soul is a part of what could be called an "universal psyche", it once participated in it but at some point they got separated and the soul got trapped in a physical body instead
-The soul is inmortal and repeteadly occupies different bodies until it achieves an state where it can go back to participating in the one intelligence of the universe, the way to reach this state is through philosophy
-Everything is composed of numbers
Now, the first 2 postulates are pretty straightforward, but the last one is fucking me up. Here's what I understand of it.
All things that exist participate on the same elements as numbers do, which are ordered in a pair of columns and are:
Limited--------unlimited
Odd-------------even
Oneness------plurality
Right------------left
Male------------female
Rest------------movement
Straight--------curve
Light------------darkness
Good------------evil
Square----------oblong
These elements are in a hierarchic order, where all the elements are a consequence of the ones higher up. The more important of them all are the limited-unlimited and odd-even pairs.
The limited-unlimited pair needs some clarification, the greek definition of unlimited is "that which has no limits", so it could mean something like what we consider unlimited (infinite, unbound) but it could also be something like an amorphous blob, or a mix of gases, since they ar something which posseses no internal limits to define them.
The odd-even pair explains itself so I guess I don't really need to explain it further.
Now. Why is an odd number the consequence of the limited and an even number of the limited? This is my first doubt and after struggling hard with it I have no idea how to solve it.

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