Pythagoras
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Pythagoras · c. 570–495 BCE
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“Pythagoras — or his followers — discovered that musical harmony is ratio, the first proof that a quality you feel can be a quantity you count. Every equation in every physics textbook is the descendant of that idea.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“The deepest truth about the world is not what it's made of but how it's patterned — reality, at bottom, is number.”
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