"At the same time that the young Buddha was learning many of the truths that would become Buddhism, the Pythagoreans were studying the universe through numbers. They believed that numbers were fundamental to the universe-that in a a very real sense, everything is built from numbers."
This quote is ... odd. To think that while Buddha who is a religious icon, that many people the world over still follow his teachings, existed when numbers were in prime existence is pretty odd. It is as if the world goes through phases where, what I guess you could call 'enlightenment' encases itself. Another part of this quote that I find interesting is that people thought that everything is built from numbers. It is not the thought itself that is odd but I can not seem to figure out how someone could suddenly think 'hey I bet the universe is built from number'. The question that this quote brings up to myself is not one dealing precisely with the mathmatics, it is that if both of these incredible influential ideas were happening at around the same time, does that mean that they are interrelated?
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