The music of Pythagoras : how an ancient brotherhood cracked the code of the universe and lit the path from antiquity to outer space

by Kitty Ferguson. Through the insightful eyes of popular science writer Ferguson (Tycho & Kepler; Measuring the Universe), readers glimpse the enormous impact of the Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras and his followers and the ideas gathered around them. She describes the mythology that surrounded Pythagoras, as well as the facts behind the man, and how those myths changed over time but continued to influence natural inquiry. --Library Journal. (Check catalog)