How to pronounce“pythagoreans”in English

The Pythagoreans called it the Furca Pythagorica, the Pythagorean Fork.

And the Pythagoreans especially were interested in number theory from that point of view.

So the Pythagoreans are the villains in our story, if they really are villains, which isn't at all clear.

The successors to the Pythagoreans went wrong.

Now the Pythagoreans believed in the power of a very particular type of mathematics, based on integers.

So who are these Pythagoreans and how do they break the RSA algorithm?

We also know that Pythagoreans were instrumental in introducing the tuning system for the musical scale.

The NSA believes that the cult of Pythagoreans has used its mathematical prowess to break a cryptographic algorithm known as RSA; many of you are probably familiar with it.

The messages left by the Pythagoreans like the one left for Secretary Abel have been essentially flawless, but Ambrose and the NSA noticed a typo in one of them.

we've seen from the neo-Pythagoreans or that I have at least, has been more or less flawless.'

But it's not clear whether the Pythagoreans are a malevolent or benign force.

Now where does the mathematical view of the Pythagoreans come together with modern cryptology?

And this is the problem that the NSA thinks that the Pythagoreans have solved in order to crack the RSA algorithm.

up certain forensic techniques in Tetraktys to track down the Pythagoreans as it were, when this patent suddenly surfaced describing exactly the techniques I was developing in

And I learned that I actually totally misunderstood Pythagoras and Pythagoreans.

As the story evolves, the Pythagoreans gradually infiltrate many parts of the world online and off.

And in fact, Copernicus gave credit to Pythagoreans as being his predecessors.

So this idea about the supremacy of number was encapsulated in a sacred symbol for the Pythagoreans called the Tetraktys; you see it up here.

'To the Pythagoreans? 'The Pythagoreans were the original utopians, Ambrose.

Well, the Pythagoreans thought of numbers a little like we might think of gods.

Do you know the Pythagoreans tried more or

I can’t prove it, but the original Pythagoreans to my mind clearly believed in living in the world.

Well Pythagorean ideas about numbers and their supremacy; all this numerological gobblygook seems little silly at first blush, but Pythagoreans were even writing prayers to numbers like

So how do Ambrose and the NSA sleuth out the identities of the Pythagoreans?

Actually, I, you know, I gave a talk about Pythagoras and Pythagoreans just a few weeks ago at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco.

- Well, first of all, kind of remember we talked about Pythagoreans, and how for Pythagoreans, the whole world was just the symphony