(6) Pythagoras
" A - squared plus B - square equals C - squared!“ You ca n’t even read his name without the equation running through your head , can you ? Pythagoras was more than just a triangular one - magic trick crib , though . The monastic Pythagorean brotherhood he lead conflated religious mysticism and religion with mathematics , a way of cerebration that later influenced Plato . He postulated that individual melodic notes could be translate into numerical equations , a notion that helped organize early music hypothesis . All of these achievement are impressive , but really , never forget that he helped make " hypotenuse" part of your mental lexicon .
(11) Albert Schweitzer
Schweitzer crammed so much into his 90 - year life he could have been five mass . His 1906 textThe Quest of the Historical Jesusproved that he was a titan in theological system . He was one of Europe ’s good pipage organist and gained exceptional renown for his scholarship and interpretations of Bach . When he decided to focalize on philanthropic gift , he went to medical school , became a doctor , and headed to Africa and built a medical foreign mission . For these awful achievements and his wide-eyed maxim that " Ethics is nothing other than Reverence for Life,“ Schweitzer won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize .
The Breakdown
Pythagoras may be the braggy name , but Schweitzer ’s no first - rung cupcake . The good doctor turn his attention to many wildly disparate fields , but there was always a common thread : he dominated these try completely . fortuitously for us , he decided to use his powers for goodness . Is it enough to overtake the Pythagorean theorem , though ?
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