Decad (Greek philosophy)

Decad (Greek philosophy)

Pythagorus regarded the number 10, or "decad" as being a perfect number, which was often represented by the tetractys,[1][2] which embraced the whole nature of number.[3]

References

  1. ^ God in Greek philosophy to the time of Socratees, Roy Kenneth Hack, p51, [1]
  2. ^ A History of Greek Philosophy: The Later Plato and the Academy, William Keith Chambers Guthrie, p.459 [2]
  3. ^ Guthrie, W. K. C. (1995). A History of Greek Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 188. ISBN 0-521-29420-7. 

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