This philosopher's school in Croton believed in the transmigration of the soul, advocated silence, and practiced vegetarianism, but refrained from eating beans. According to legend, one of this man's followers, (*) Hippasus, was drowned after discovering that the square root of 2 was not a fraction. For 10 points, name this Greek philosopher and mathematician who names a theorem relating sides of a right triangle with the formula a²+b²=c² ["a squared plus b squared equal
This philosopher's school in Croton believed in the transmigration of the soul, advocated silence, and practiced vegetarianism, but refrained from eating beans. According to legend, one of this man's followers, (*) Hippasus, was drowned after discovering that the square root of 2 was not a fraction. For 10 points, name this Greek philosopher and mathematician who names a theorem relating sides of a right triangle with the formula a²+b²=c² ["a squared plus b squared equals c squared"].
This philosopher's school in Croton believed in the transmigration of the soul, advocated silence, and practiced vegetarianism, but refrained from eating beans.
Pythagoras of Samos