Philosophy :: Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)

a half-mythological, half-historic personage first man to call himself a philosopher ("lover of wisdom") important contributions to mathematics (e.g. Pythagorean theorem, Theory of Proportions etc.) and music (e.g. Pythagorean tuning, musica universalis etc.) Bust of Pythagoras from Forum Romanum, Rome