John Carlos Baez on Nostr: npub176rch…pua66 npub1xewav…jzmfc - very little is known for sure about what ...

npub176rch4xvrlu8d7pfpyswwqsg3g0ygc809gjxhjuw8jpy6cv9uv5sgpua66 (npub176r…ua66) npub1xewavcy9m079c9hnvvjxqceljtau6c6d9rgn272cw5kdvejp8mysdjzmfc (npub1xew…zmfc) - very little is known for sure about what Pythagoras did. I read a book-long biography of him which starts by listing everything known about him in the first paragraph: he was the son of Mnesarchus, a gem-engraver, and around 530 BC he travelled to Croton in southern Italy. The rest is echoes of echoes of echoes.