What did the pythagoras mean by ' Everything is made from numbers ?'

[Well.wisher]

Hi,
I'm unable to understand this point . I'm thinking over it and couldn't get the answer.
Pythagoras was a philosopher who believed in worshiping the numbers . He conceptualised the numbers in different forms .

He said that all things are made from numbers . All things are numbers . In short he believed that being and existence is based on numbers .
How so ?

@HannibalBarca @El Sidd @Joe Shearer @Kaptaan @django

 

[Indus Pakistan]

Hi,
I'm unable to understand this point . I'm thinking over it and couldn't get the answer.
Pythagoras was a philosopher who believed in worshiping the numbers . He conceptualised the numbers in different forms .

He said that all things are made from numbers . All things are numbers . In short he believed that being and existence is based on numbers .
How so ?

@HannibalBarca @El Sidd @Joe Shearer @Kaptaan @django

Mathematics is the religion of the universe. Everything around you sings to a tune and that tune is writ in numbers. You abstract physical reality with maths. Therefore to understand nature we must learn it's language - Maths.

As our understanding of maths improves we can see the patterns and the behaviour of universe which wwe can of course use to design all manner of things around us. From bridges, buildings, rockets, missiles, to medicine math is the recipe that underpins everything. So Pythagoras was spot on.

 

[maxpayne]

Yes no doubt most of the existence and relations can be expressed in mathematics. E.g Einstein theory of relativity gives conversion from mass to energy mathemtically. Newton law of gravitation gives relation bw gravitational pull of two objects mathematically. Maths gives us the accuracy in calculation, otherwise everything mass or energy exists before calculating or knowing that accuratelly.

 

[untitled]

It maybe because he owed his life to Milo (his student not the chocolate drink) who probably used his theorem to save his life when the roof of the school he teached in collapsed . Milo held the pillar until Pyhtagoras reached safety.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_of_Croton?wprov=sfla1

 

[Indus Pakistan]

And don't forget our ancestors in what is now Pakistan played vital role in the language of the universe.


https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/bakh...st-recorded-origin-of-the-zero-symbol.517875/

 

[Joe Shearer]

Hi,
I'm unable to understand this point . I'm thinking over it and couldn't get the answer.
Pythagoras was a philosopher who believed in worshiping the numbers . He conceptualised the numbers in different forms .

He said that all things are made from numbers . All things are numbers . In short he believed that being and existence is based on numbers .
How so ?

@HannibalBarca @El Sidd @Joe Shearer @Kaptaan @django

Difficult to improve on @Kaptaan's answer (his first answer, not his second )

 

[Well.wisher]

Difficult to improve on @Kaptaan's answer (his first answer, not his second )

Obviously his answer is great .
And your views matter too .

 

[django]

Obviously his answer is great .
And your views matter too .

Important to note that mathematics does not always pertain to reality, a basic example would be a quadratic equation where you can get both a negative and positive answer, if we are using such a equation to determine time or length obviously the neg cannot be accurate or take the the example of 1+2+3 to infinity, the answer can be summed upto -1/12, in reality this cannot be true.Kudos Wisher

 

[Joe Shearer]

Obviously his answer is great .
And your views matter too .

I am sorry, I did not mean to sound dismissive or supercilious; far from it. Kaptaan has a knack for articulating difficult ideas and putting them together in an eminently accessible way. As he so well put it, Pythagoras believed that the entire universe, including such diverse elements as the health of humans, music and the astronomical system, was possible to understand through the use of what we call 'mathematics' today: he himself used the term in its Greek sense of 'seeker'. 'Mathematikoi' is a term for the collective group of seekers that he drew around himself, in an inner circle with strict rules of living, including one demanding silence if uncertain on any matter, on pain of death. He has not been well documented; what we know is simply that he took it that numbers underlaid nature, and that understanding nature was best done through understanding numbers very well. Understanding numbers covered arithmetic and geometry; algebra was not known or practised then.

The simplest possible summary is that the only way to understand the physical universe is to model it mathematically; for instance, the General and Special Theories of Relativity, the Laws of Motion, Gravity, and almost everything that we take for granted today is represented for quick understanding as a mathematical model.

I hope that was more useful.

 

[Panzerfaust 3]

Hi,
I'm unable to understand this point . I'm thinking over it and couldn't get the answer.
Pythagoras was a philosopher who believed in worshiping the numbers . He conceptualised the numbers in different forms .

He said that all things are made from numbers . All things are numbers . In short he believed that being and existence is based on numbers .
How so ?

@HannibalBarca @El Sidd @Joe Shearer @Kaptaan @django

Its is because the ancient Indian texts state that the language of the nature is maths ,everything can be explained in the form of numbers ,physics which defines the the natural law makes use the concept of numbers the most.the creation of universe , the big bang ,expanding universe ,theory of relativity , gravity everything is explained by numbers

 

[El Sidd]

Hi,
I'm unable to understand this point . I'm thinking over it and couldn't get the answer.
Pythagoras was a philosopher who believed in worshiping the numbers . He conceptualised the numbers in different forms .

He said that all things are made from numbers . All things are numbers . In short he believed that being and existence is based on numbers .
How so ?

@HannibalBarca @El Sidd @Joe Shearer @Kaptaan @django

Kaptaan got the lead here.

Just may add.

You can break down anything in the universe in numbers/patterns.

 

[django]

I am sorry, I did not mean to sound dismissive or supercilious; far from it. Kaptaan has a knack for articulating difficult ideas and putting them together in an eminently accessible way. As he so well put it, Pythagoras believed that the entire universe, including such diverse elements as the health of humans, music and the astronomical system, was possible to understand through the use of what we call 'mathematics' today: he himself used the term in its Greek sense of 'seeker'. 'Mathematikoi' is a term for the collective group of seekers that he drew around himself, in an inner circle with strict rules of living, including one demanding silence if uncertain on any matter, on pain of death. He has not been well documented; what we know is simply that he took it that numbers underlaid nature, and that understanding nature was best done through understanding numbers very well. Understanding numbers covered arithmetic and geometry; algebra was not known or practised then.

The simplest possible summary is that the only way to understand the physical universe is to model it mathematically; for instance, the General and Special Theories of Relativity, the Laws of Motion, Gravity, and almost everything that we take for granted today is represented for quick understanding as a mathematical model.

I hope that was more useful.

As do you Joe, no question about it.Kudos

 

[Taimoor Khan]

786.

 

[El Sidd]

786.

Not to frighten you but veda is full of mathematical theorams

Just saying

 

[Taimoor Khan]

Not to frighten you but veda is full of mathematical theorams

Just saying

What abjad got to do with vedas?