who was the founder of pythagorean theorem?
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Phytagoras HIMSELF! the man!\n\nI think he did it while trying to find a scientific explanation on why did theif folks gave him that name.
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This is a *VERY* famous math problem called "Fermats Last Theorem".  It took over 250 years to prove, but it has been proven to be true.\n\nHere is a snippet from the link below:\n"Using sophisticated tools from algebraic geometry (in particular elliptic curves and group schemes), and number theory (modular forms, Galois representations, Hecke algebras, and Iwasawa theory), the English-born mathematician Andrew Wiles, from Princeton University, with help from his former student Richard Taylor, devised a proof of Fermat's last theorem that was published in 1995 in the journal Annals of Mathematics."
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Euclid of Alexandria, the ancient Greek mathematician and author of the Elements \n\nclick here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid%27s_Elements
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Pythagoras was born around 570 BC.  He had a bunch of followers, called Pythagoreans.  Scholars don't know much about Pythagoras' views himself- we just have books from secondhand sources or from his followers.  A guy named Philolaus was the first Pythagorean who left a book we have access to.  Basically, pythagoreans believed that numbers and ratios could be used to understand the universe.  They are well known for the Pythagorean theorem, relating a triangles hypotenuse to its two sides, and for their work on musical scales.
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Oh c'mon! Smiddy hasn't had geometry for 20 years! but this is basic. Pythagorean theorem states that on a triangle A-squared plus B-squared = C-squared where C is the hypotenuse. The hypotenuse of a triangle is the diagonal bit if it's two halves of a square and we know by definition that on a square A and B are equal. Therefore 2X squared = 8-squared or 2x^2 = 64\n\nx^2 = 32\nx = sq.rt 32\n\nthe area of the original square is x times x so you're back at 32 square centimeters
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"Pythagoras of Samos was a Greek philosopher responsible for important developments in mathematics, astronomy and the theory of music. He left Samos because of the tyrant who ruled there and went to southern Italy about 532 BC. He founded a philosophical and religious school in Croton that had many followers.\n\nAlthough the theorem now known as Pythagoras's theorem was known to the Babylonians 1000 years earlier he may have been the first to prove it.\n\nOf his actual work nothing is known. His school practised secrecy and communalism making it hard to distinguish between the work of Pythagoras and that of his followers. His school made outstanding contributions to mathematics.\n\nPythagoreans believed that all relations could be reduced to number relations. This generalisation stemmed from observations in music, mathematics and astronomy.\n\nThe Pythagoreans noticed that vibrating strings produce harmonious tones when the ratios of the lengths of the strings are whole numbers, and that these ratios could be extended to other instruments.\n\nThe most important discovery of this school was the fact that the diagonal of a square is not a rational multiple of its side. This result showed the existence of irrational numbers. Not only did this disturb Greek mathematics but the Pythagoreans' own belief that whole numbers and their ratios could account for geometrical properties was challenged by their own results.\n\nIn astronomy Pythagoras taught that the Earth was a sphere at the centre of the Universe. He also recognised that the orbit of the Moon was inclined to the equator of the Earth and he was one of the first to realise that Venus as an evening star was the same planet as Venus as a morning star. "\n\nThere is some more on Pythagoras at\nhttp://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history.\nGo to the search menu and search for "pythagoras". Hope this answers your question.
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The Pythagorean Theorem states that, in a right triangle, the sum of the squares of the lengths of the two sides which form the right angle is equal to the square of the length of the third side.\n\nThis is commonly stated as A^2 + B^2 = C^2, where A and B represent the lengths of the two sides which form a right angle, and where C represents the length of the other side.
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Pythagoras? As in the Pythagorean theorem. (In a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.)
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It was believed that he saw the shadows of the pillars on the tiled temple floor, that looked like a right angled triangle with squares attached. \nFrom there he developed his theory that the square drawn on the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle, is equal in area to the sum of the squares drawn on the other two sides.\nPythagoras put forward a proof, but said proof contained errors to do with transient numbers, however it seemed the theory was sound.\nSome two centuries later the Great Euclid himself proved it, with his brilliant proof using congruent triangles, true poetry of geometry.
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The Pythagorean Theorem? It's a^2 + b^2 = c^2.\n\nIf there's a right triangle, and a and b are the two "legs" (the shorter sides), and c is the hypotenuse (the longest side).
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None, Zero was invented by Indian Mathematician Aryabhata and later Brahmagupta developed its concept
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This theorem has an amazing number of proofs but this theorem(like many other mathematical concepts) as you said was known way before pythogorean times but only to INDIANS who didnt share it on the global scale!!
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theorm of Pythagorus states that if one of the angle of triangle is right angle{90degrees} than the hypotenuese square{the side opposite to right angle} is egual to the sum of squares of the sides forming the right angle \ni.e. (Hyp)square =one side square + second side square \n a2=b2+c2
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The  Pythagorean Theorem gives the length of the hypotenuse (the longest side) of a right triangle ( one of the angles is 90 degrees )\na^2 + b^2 = c^2\n\n\nApplying the Pythagorean Theorem twice you get a three dimensional version \n\na=x\nb=y\nx^2 + y^2 = c^2\nc^2 + z^2 = h^2 (using c as the side of a new triangle)\nx^2 + y^2 + z^2 = h^2\n\nwhich is the length of any line from (0,0,0) to (x,y,z)\n\nthe distance formula just finds the change in x, y, and z and puts it into this formula\nx = x1-x2\ny = y1-y2\nz = z1-z2\n\nThe midpoint formula is really unrelated to the other two.\nAll it does is average each of the coordinates of the other two points.  ( (x1+x2)/2 , (y1+y2)/2 , (z1+z2)/2 )\nThe only thing it has in common is the use of the same type of coordinate system
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It started with the Egyptians, expanded by Greeks, Indians and Romans and united with Algebra by Descartes. Riemann unseated Euclid and his geometry was used by Einstien for the Relativity theory.
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Pamanujan was a 20th century mathematician, and Einstein was a physicist, not a mathemtatician.\n\nTypically, the top three are designated as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss. Archimedes was essentially able to do integral calculus without algebra, invented a way of talking about large numbers, and uniied a great deal of the math at his time.\n\nNewton was involved in inventing calculus, but also contributed to the binomial theorem for non-integer exponents, and had a hand in the calculus of variations.\n\nGauss gave a unified approach to number theory, solved the problem of which polygons are constructible, and laid the foundations of non-euclidean geometry.\n\nRunners up include Euler, Cauchy, and Riemann.
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Don't you mean the Pythagorean Theorem?  That theorem is a basic tenent of Geometry that states: In any right triangle, the square of the length of the hypotenuse (side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.   A^2 + B^2 = C^2.