List of things named after Pythagoras
This is a list of things named after Pythagoras, the ancient Greek philosopher, mystic, mathematician, and music theorist.
Philosophy and mysticism
- Pythagoreanism – the system of philosophy of Pythagoras and his followers
- Neopythagoreanism – a later philosophical system
- Pythagorean cup – a drinking cup that forces its user to imbibe only in moderation
- Pythagorean letter – the Greek letter upsilon, used as a symbol by the Pythagoreans
- Pythagorean diet – vegetarianism
- Pythagorean symbol – the tetractys
- Pythagorean system – the distinctive system of numerology used by the Pythagoreans
Mathematics
- Pythagorean theorem – the statement that the sum of the areas of the squares on the sides of a right triangle is the area of the square on the hypotenuse
- Pythagorean triple – a set of three positive integers that can occur in the Pythagorean theorem
- Pythagorean quadruple - a set of four positive integers that describes the space diagonal of a cuboid. Also known as a Pythagorean box.
- Pythagorean expectation – a method of statistical analysis inspired by the Pythagorean theorem
- Pythagorean field – in algebra, a field in which the sum of two squares is in every case itself a square
- Pythagorean prime – a prime number of the form 4n + 1
- Pythagorean trigonometric identity – any of several trigonometric identities
- Pythagorean means – the arithmetic mean, the geometric mean, and the harmonic mean
- Pythagorean addition – an arithmetic operation arising from the Pythagorean theorem
- Pythagoras's constant – the square root of 2
- Lute of Pythagoras – a geometric figure
- Pythagoras tree – a fractal geometric figure
- Table of Pythagoras, another name for the Multiplication table
Music
Other
- Pythagoras' Cave, where Pythagoras is said to have hidden from the tyrant Polycrates on Mount Kerkis on Samos
- Pythagoreion, a town on Samos
- Pythagoras (crater) – a lunar crater
- PythagoraSwitch – a Japanese educational TV program, which also features sequences showing Pythagorean Devices. Pythagorean Devices are known in the US as "Rube Goldberg machines", or in Great Britain as "Heath Robinson" contraptions.
- Pythagoras Mechanical Workshop Museum – a building—a former factory—in Sweden
- School of Pythagoras – the oldest building in St John's College, Cambridge
- Pythagoras ABM – an agent-based software model
- Knights of Pythagoras – a Masonic body for boys