AOL News is joining forces with The Huffington Post to bring you the best original reporting, insight and opinion on the web. Join HuffPost Social News using your AOL account!

Pythagoras News

Pythagoras News From AOL News

Scholar Claims to Have Unlocked 'The Plato Code'

By Theunis BatesJun 30th 2010 – 3:45PM
Imagno / Getty Images

Imagno / Getty Images

LONDON (June 30) -- A scholar unlocks a code buried within ancient Greek texts to discover secret messages left by a long-dead philosopher. This isn't the plot of the next Dan Brown novel, but the result of an English academic's five-year-long study of Plato. Jay Kennedy of the University of Manchester claims that Plato...

Background on Pythagoras

Pythagoras of Samos (, or simply ; b. about 570 – d. about 495 BC) was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism.

more at wikipedia »