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Detailed explanation-1: -Pythagoras, in his teachings focused on the significance of numerology, he believed that numbers themselves explained the true nature of the Universe. Numbers were in the Greek world of Pythagoras’ days natural numbers – that is positive integers (there was no zero).

Detailed explanation-2: -A central belief of Pythagoras and his followers was that “everything is number.” To the Pythagoreans a number was a quantity that could be expressed as a ratio of two integers (a rational number). The Pythagoreans used music as an example of this belief.

Detailed explanation-3: -In antiquity, Pythagoras was credited with many mathematical and scientific discoveries, including the Pythagorean theorem, Pythagorean tuning, the five regular solids, the Theory of Proportions, the sphericity of the Earth, and the identity of the morning and evening stars as the planet Venus.

Detailed explanation-4: -Born in Samos in around 570 B.C, Pythagoras is commonly said to be the first pure mathematician who proposed that everything is a number. Although he is most famous for his mathematical theorem, Pythagoras also made extraordinary developments in astronomy and geometry.

Detailed explanation-5: -Pythagoras stated, “things are numbers". This was extracted from the idea that if something as philosophical as music could be explained in numbers could not everything. He believed everything was constructed through a variety of mathematics.