He born in Miletus in Asia Minor is located in the modern country of Turkey.

Thales' hypothesis that the originating principle of nature and the nature of matter was a single material substance:

He developed a method for determining the distance of ships at sea measured the height of a pyramid.

He founded an Ionian school of natural philosophy

He is the first known individual to use deductive reasoning applied to geometry.

Thales founded an Ionian school of natural philosophy .

Thales’ theorem is

The Egyptians had applied some of this knowledge for the division and fragmentation of their land.

What country Thales traveled to and brought back geometry ideas?

Pythagoras was probably born on the island of ____________, off the coast of modern-day Turkey.

The Pythagorean theorem: The sum of the areas of the two squares on the legs (a and b) equals the area of the square on the hypotenuse (c).

Pythagoras was also credited with devising the Eightfold Path, the triangular figure of four rows, which add up to the perfect number, ten.

Pythagoras believed that both mathematics and music could purify.

Who said: All things are numbers. Mathematics is the basis for everything, and geometry is the highest form of mathematical studies.

Pythagoras started a public society called the Pythagorean brotherhood devoted to the study of mathematics.

Pythagoras believed that: The soul resides in the brain, and is immortal. It moves from one being to another,sometimes from a human into an animal, through a series of reincarnations.

Thales concludes that all matter, regardless of its apparent properties, must be water in some stage of transformation.