Ultimate Reality According to Pythagoras

For background on Pythagoras. The first two links are to books by Kitty Ferguson on the life and philosophy of Pythagoras. They were good reads. If you're really interested in his life and thought try to find them:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pythagoras-Lives-Legacy-Rational-Universe/dp/18483123...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Pythagoras-Kitty-Ferguson/dp/0802716318/ref=sr_...
[I had to buy the first book, but the second was in my local library.]
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoras/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meQfI8Yh6k4
http://www.philosophicalmisadventures.com/?p=15
For more on the theories of Max Tagmark, a modern mathematician, and his claims that the universe is numbers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_ExaP41tR8
http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Pythagoras-Kitty-Ferguson/dp/0802716318/ref=sr_...
[I had to buy the first one, but the second was in my local library.]

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[ThePeaceableKingdom]

One of my favorite quotes attributed to Pythagoras by Iamblichus:

You should do those things that you judge to be beautiful,

though in doing them you lack renown, for the rabble is

a bad judge of a good thing.

[ThePeaceableKingdom]

A great modern book in the Pythagorean tradition is "A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe." It is, as the ad men say, fun for all ages...

The discovery that the square root of 2 is irrational, or as they reckoned it, must be both odd and even, is usually attributed to one of his followers, who was thrown overboard to prevent the secret getting out... but...

Pythagoras, like Jesus and Buddha, is one of those figures who stands with one foot in history and one in myth.

[HigherPlanes]

Geometry is pretty awesome. Should have paid more attention in school but it seem real boring at the time. I also noticed that from pythagoras tetractys you get the flower of life.