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Seent it. Your conclusions?
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Donald Duck and math, it is wonderful. If you mean about the Pythagoreans, they were a weird cult but most of the magicey stuff attributed to them was the nuttier Neoplatonists like Iamblicus claiming an ancient source for their own ideas to give them authority. There isn't much to go on about the actual Pythagoreans, and most of it was written by people who didn't like them. They might have been a lot like the early Academy, given Plato's interest in them. I'm not a classicist, though. Mostly I think Donald Duck movies about geometry are pretty great.