circles and triangles indeed. he had to start a cult after that to do secret research on squares and rectangles. but noone sees his ugly side now do they? the pythagorean brotherhood, it was called... lol

he was the head, and he had students coming up with new shit, which would be circulated among the brotherhood, but kept secret from the rest of the world. he once killed one of his students because he disproved one of his theorems or sth.