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>First mathematical proof inspires Pythagoras to apply Thales's method to his egyptian knowledge, creating mathematics
>Natural explanations and substance monism also inspires Pythagoras and then every pre-socratic, thereby creating science and philosophy
>Prediction of eclipse creates modern astronomy
>He had no precedent
So this is the guy that started it all? This is the man who singlehandedly created the west and the modern world out of thin air? How did he do it? What kind of a man was he? No Aristotle, No Archimedes, No Plato, No Renaissance, No scientific revolution without Thales. Why don't we venerate this man as a God?

>> No.21988950

Yes.

>> No.21988960

He got his knowledge from Aegyptians (Africans).

>> No.21988963
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21988963

>>21987836

>> No.21989149

You forgot
>First Options trader, invented the concept of the option and applied it to olive presses to make himself rich on a dare.

>> No.21989208

>>21988960
Egyptian mathematics was basically limited to arithmetic with fractions and knowledge of the existence of some pythagorean triples. Thales did proofs about circles, nothing like what he did survives in any records of egyptian mathematics.

>> No.21989217

>>21988963
>science is bad because this news article is dumb
Truly you have a dizzying intellect

>> No.21991106

bump

>> No.21992833

Look at who possibly influenced him and create an accurate timeline of that period.

>> No.21992841

>>21987836
how did greeks and romans do math if they hadn't discovered zero yet?

>> No.21993029

>>21992841
you don't really need zero for much

>> No.21993036

>>21992833
there is no one before him.

>> No.21993043

>>21987836
He's me after I finish this blasted machine

>> No.21993058

>>21989208
> What is "secrete knowledge"?

>> No.21993061

>>21993058
yes our main information on egyptian mathematics comes from a text that claims to contain all the mysteries of the universe and it is literally a bunch of methods for adding fractions.

>> No.21993633

>>21987836
And then was btfo by a thracian servant

>> No.21993649

>>21993029
Zero is the finest acheivement of the human race what are you smoking?