# Pythagorean

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**Pythagorean**, meaning of or pertaining to the ancient Ionian mathematician, philosopher, and music theorist [Pythagoras](/source/Pythagoras), may refer to:

## Philosophy

- [Pythagoreanism](/source/Pythagoreanism), the esoteric and metaphysical beliefs purported to have been held by Pythagoras
- [Neopythagoreanism](/source/Neopythagoreanism), a school of philosophy reviving Pythagorean doctrines that became prominent in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD
- [Pythagorean diet](/source/Pythagorean_diet), the name for vegetarianism before the nineteenth century

## Mathematics

- [Pythagorean theorem](/source/Pythagorean_theorem)
- [Pythagorean triple](/source/Pythagorean_triple)
- [Pythagorean prime](/source/Pythagorean_prime)
- [Pythagorean trigonometric identity](/source/Pythagorean_trigonometric_identity)
- Table of Pythagoras, another name for the [multiplication table](/source/Multiplication_table)

## Music

- [Pythagorean comma](/source/Pythagorean_comma)
- [Pythagorean hammers](/source/Pythagorean_hammers)
- [Pythagorean tuning](/source/Pythagorean_tuning)

## Other uses

- [Pythagorean cup](/source/Pythagorean_cup)
- [Pythagorean expectation](/source/Pythagorean_expectation), a baseball statistical term
- [Pythagorean letter](/source/Pythagorean_letter)

## See also

- [List of things named after Pythagoras](/source/List_of_things_named_after_Pythagoras)

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