1. Many Scientists refer to him as the first advanced and pure mathematician
2. Pythagoras founded his own philosophical and religious school in Croton and had many attendees and another school in Samos
3. Pythagoras, having started his own religion, had loyal religious followers called the Mathematikoi whom followed the laws of Pythagoras, were vegetarians, and dedicated their lives to the study of mathematics
4. Aristotle and many philosophers credit him with the introduction of abstract quantity, and states," The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number. " (history.mcs)
5. Pythagoras was disliked by many of the tribes near his town so they never awarded him at all and tried to kill him, but he is posthumously regarded as the start of mathematical culture and science.