Pythagoreanism

Held that number is the principle of all things, joining mathematics, music and the purification of the soul in a quasi-religious community.

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Declared that number is the principle of all things, fusing mathematics, music and purification of the soul into a religious way of life.

Proposed the four roots, earth, air, fire and water, mixed and parted by Love and Strife, reconciling Parmenides with the world of experience.