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Pythagoras the Master THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS students need to thoughtfully evaluatePythagoras was one of the great geniuses of the West and yet, apart from his famous Pythagorean theorem, he is virtually unknown. If we rely on modern scholars and academics, argues Carol Dunn, we find that his long forgotten legacy is misunderstood and even distorted, and is therefore almost nonexistent. First, it shows that the early pioneers of modern physics, mainly Newton and Kepler, scientifically and mathematically confirmed Pythagoras'