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Archytas was an ancient Greek philosopher, who was born in 428 BC in Tarentum, Magna Graecia, now southern Italy. In addition to being a philosopher, Archytas was also a mathematician, astronomer, statesman, and a strategist, best remembered for inventing what is believed to be the first-ever self-propelled flying device known as the Flying Pigeon. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"92665","attributes":{"alt":"Archytas became a Pythagorean, fascinated by arithmetic, mathematics and geometry. Raphael’s fresco, The School of Athens, shows Pythagoras as a young man. (Public domain)","class":"media-image","height":"700","style":"width: 646px; height: 700px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"646"}}]] Archytas became a Pythagorean, fascinated by arithmetic, mathematics and geometry. Raphael’s fresco, The School of Athens, shows Pythagoras as a young man. ( Public domain ) Explaining the World Through Mathematics When Archytas was young, he was taught by
