Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans - Zhmud, Leonid (Leading Academic Researcher, Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of the Sciences, St. Petersburg)

In ancient tradition, Pythagoras emerges as a wise teacher, an outstanding mathematician, an influential politician, and as a religious and ethical reformer. This volume offers a comprehensive study of Pythagoras, Pythagoreanism, and the early Pythagoreans through an analysis of the many representations of the individual and his followers.