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Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism

by Walter Burkert · Edwin L. Minar Jr.

A landmark critical study of the evidence for Pythagoras and the early Pythagoreans, first published in German in 1962. Burkert argues that the historical Pythagoras was above all a religious teacher and that much of the mathematics attributed to him is a later projection.

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