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Why is Pythagoras so under-recognized?

Pythagoras had a clear effect on neoPlatonism (and probably Plato himself) which in turn impacted Christian theology. Pythagoras also seems to have affected Jewish Kabbalah and some Islamic mysticism. The figure of Hermes Trismegistus has a bit in common with Pythagoras as described in Iamblichus' *Life of Pythagoras*, and many of the medieval hermeticists also respected Pythagoras a great deal, as did some Renaissance artists, including Alberti, Bramante, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.

So why is it that the first time I heard him mentioned was in a high school algebra class when the teacher claimed he was a Greek mathematician who invented the Pythagorean theorem and then dropped the subject? He may not have even created that theorem, and he had a huge effect on the future of philosophy, art, and possibly even architecture.
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It is possible that you think Pythagoras is under-recognised because you were in a high school algebra class dedicated to teaching high school algebra, not a class on Pythagoras's influence on Plato, Neoplatonist thought and early Christian theology.