neopythagoreanadj.n.

1863 Sat. Rev. 12 Dec. 763/2 The Nought was known in the Neo-Pythagorean schools.

1898 Dict. National Biogr. at Taylor, Thomas The mystical neo-Pythagorean mathematics he esteemed the true science, which the Arabians and their European successors had corrupted.

1936 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 8 440 Bruno died for a Copernicus whom he did not understand. Like the Inquisition, he regarded the new system as a neo-Pythagorean revival.

1965 R. F. Fleissner in Eng. Stud. Feb. 45 But Coleridge was probably more aware of the neo-pythagorean value placed on the number five.

2001 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 34 240/2 An ‘implied reader’ who..is..more familiar with the Neoplatonic and Neopythagorean traditions than with the mathematical tradition.

1891 Chambers's Encycl. (new ed.) VII. 436/2 Neopythagoreans may be divided into two groups.

1936 Amer. Math. Monthly 43 410 The failure of the Neo-pythagoreans to clarify the tradition which they have received intimates that the advance of mathematical knowledge had here obscured some more ancient mathematical procedure.

1959 G. B. Ladner Idea of Reform i. i. 11 Perhaps, already the Pythagoreans, and in any case the Neopythagoreans, expected that the beginning of a new world year would bring about a general renewal of the world.

1988 Classical Q. New Ser. 38 220 The Neopythagoreans were fascinated by the fact that in the series which start with 1 and proceed by doubling or trebling, etc., square and cube numbers fall at regular intervals.