Tudo é número: uma análise conceitual da ideia de número em Pitágoras (original) (raw)

2017, Revista Principia - Divulgação Científica e Tecnológica do IFPB

This work is an analysis of the number concept based on the thoughts of Pythagoras, well as to seek an approximation of the historical reflections of the Pythagorean School in the Greek context of Classical Antiquity. The guiding objective of the study is to analyze the theory of the integers in the Pythagorean philosophy as ultimate cause of man and matter. From Methodological procedures point of view, the research was the bibliographical type, developed from already published material constituted, primarily, of books and journal articles through which we sought a dialogue with the developed studies concerning the subject in question. Through research it was reached the following findings: First, Pythagoras considered the number as the forming principle of the universe. However, he believed that the number constitutes the agreement between an indeterminate or unlimited element and another determinant or limiting and from there had been origin all things; Second, to the Pythagoreans...