Pythagorus

by Kitty Ferguson

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  A Note on the Author

  Kitty Ferguson is the author of the highly acclaimed Tycho & Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens; Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time; The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God; Prisons of Light: Black Holes; and Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything. She is also a Juilliard-trained professional musician.