Pythagorean

Pythagorean, meaning of or pertaining to the ancient Ionian mathematician, philosopher, and music theorist Pythagoras, may refer to:

Philosophy

• Pythagoreanism, the esoteric and metaphysical beliefs purported to have been held by Pythagoras
• Neopythagoreanism, a school of philosophy reviving Pythagorean doctrines that became prominent in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD
• Pythagorean diet, the name for vegetarianism before the nineteenth century

Mathematics

• Pythagorean theorem
• Pythagorean triple
• Pythagorean prime
• Pythagorean trigonometric identity
• Table of Pythagoras, another name for the multiplication table

Music

• Pythagorean comma
• Pythagorean hammers
• Pythagorean tuning

Other uses

• Pythagorean cup
• Pythagorean expectation, a baseball statistical term
• Pythagorean letter

See also

• List of things named after Pythagoras