References for Pythagoras

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  1. K von Fritz, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

  1. R S Brumbaugh, The philosophers of Greece (Albany, N.Y., 1981).
  2. M Cerchez, Pythagoras (Romanian) (Bucharest, 1986).
  3. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of eminent philosophers (New York, 1925).
  4. P Gorman, Pythagoras, a life (1979).
  5. T L Heath, A history of Greek mathematics 1 (Oxford, 1931).
  6. Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras (translated into English by T Taylor) (London, 1818).
  7. I Levy, La légende de Pythagore de Grèce en Ralestine (Paris, 1927).
  8. L E Navia, Pythagoras : An annotated bibliography (New York, 1990).
  9. D J O'Meara, Pythagoras revived : Mathematics and philosophy in late antiquity (New York, 1990).
  10. Porphyry, Vita Pythagorae (Leipzig, 1886),
  11. Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras in M Hadas and M Smith, Heroes and Gods (London, 1965)..
  12. E S Stamatis, Pythagoras of Samos (Greek) (Athens, 1981).
  13. B L van der Waerden, Science Awakening (New York, 1954).
  14. C J de Vogel, Pythagoras and Early Pythagoreanism (1966).
  15. H Wussing, Pythagoras, in H Wussing and W Arnold, Biographien bedeutender Mathematiker (Berlin, 1983).
  16. L Ya Zhmud', Pythagoras and his school (Russian), From the History of the World Culture 'Nauka' (Leningrad, 1990).

Articles:

  1. C Byrne, The left-handed Pythagoras, Math. Intelligencer 12 (3) (1990), 52-53.
  2. H S M Coxeter, Polytopes, kaleidoscopes, Pythagoras and the future, C. R. Math. Rep. Acad. Sci. Canada 7 (2) (1985), 107-114.
  3. W K C Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy I (1962), 146-340.
  4. F Lleras, The theorem of Pythagoras (Spanish), Mat. Ense nanza Univ. 19 (1981), 3-12.
  5. B Russell, History of Western Philosophy (London, 1961), 49-56.
  6. G Tarr, Pythagoras and his theorem, Nepali Math. Sci. Rep. 4 (1) (1979), 35-45.
  7. B L van der Waerden, Die Arithmetik der Pythagoreer, Math. Annalen 120 (1947-49), 127-153, 676-700.
  8. L Zhmud, Pythagoras as a Mathematician, Historia Mathematica 16 (1989), 249-268.
  9. L Ya Zhmud', Pythagoras as a mathematician (Russian), Istor.-Mat. Issled. 32-33 (1990), 300-325.
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