hematicians can ask, is this really there? 182 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013682 --- PAGE BREAK --- Mentioned briefly above was one of humankind’s beacons, Pythagoras, the intellectual and spiritual progenitor of Plato. He taught the disciples of the Pythagorean Brotherhood in Crotona, Italy, that reality at its de

ion, takes our problem and definitively says, “Yes, there is a solution,” or, “No, there is not.’ There are plenty of man-made proofs of this nature. Pythagoras’s proof there are an infinite number of primes is an example. Pythagoras did not have to try every prime number. He simply understood the nature of p