Definition of "Pythagoras"

A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use, and a transliteration from modern Greek.

1. Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC), an Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • Gratiano:O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!And for thy life let justice be accused.Thou almost makest me waver in my faith,To hold opinion with Pythagoras,That souls of animals infuse themselvesInto the trunks of men: thy currish spiritGovern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,Infused itself in thee; for thy desiresAre wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.

     c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i]

(mathematics, colloquial) Ellipsis of Pythagoras' theorem.  examples