Astraeus: The Mysterious Child Who Stared at the Sun and Grew Up With Pythagoras

Pythagoras is best known for the famous theorem that bears his name, one of the fundamental principles of geometry. However, far fewer know that the man behind it belonged to a tradition in which mathematics and magic were not always clearly separated. The Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyry, writing his Life of Pythagoras centuries after the man’s […]