“Pythagoras didn’t quite use fractions as we know them today but he and his followers did think long and hard about sub-multiples of numbers (or factors-the smaller number s your multiply together to get larger ones) and ratios. In Fact Pythagoras made one of the first mathematical studies of music, discovering that when the lengths of several vibrating.”
When I first read this quote about Pythagoras I automatically thought about the project from last semester when Ronnie’s music video about him. I also thought about how he invented the Pythagorean Theorem that we use all the time in math. But it talks about him in a different perspective, he wasn’t all about finding equations for triangles but he used his mathematical mind-set to research something that a lot of us find very interesting which is music. It’s also crazy to think about how long ago some of the things that we learn about, in a way it makes me have a different understanding for the math that we learn. Now every time I’m forced to do the Pythagorean Theorem my mind will wonder to something a little more interesting.
My question is how do they come up with these different calculations for things? Especially without all of the technologies that we have today. Its kind of weird to think about they did this off the top of there head, just working at something for hours and we use what they (old mathematicians) Have come up with for the technology we use today.
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