find out what you can about the man behind pythagoras theorem?
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Always a good way to start research is with Wikipedia, a free, on-line encyclopedia.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorus\n\nwill take you to Pythagorus!
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Euclid of Alexandria (Greek: Εὐκλείδης) (ca. 325 BC–265 BC), a Greek mathematician, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt almost certainly during the reign of Ptolemy I (323 BC–283 BC), is often considered to be the "father of geometry". \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid\n\nIt seems Euclid is the father, by general consent! -\nhttp://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52508.html\n\nEuclid, who is considered the father of mathematics, taught in Egypt at Alexandria.\nhttp://everyschool.org/u/logan/culturalmath/afmathematicians.htm\n\nPythagoras (approximately 582 BC–507 BC, Greek: Πυθαγόρας) was an Ionian (Greek) mathematician and philosopher, founder of the mystic, religious and scientific society called Pythagoreans, and is known best for the Pythagorean theorem which bears his name. Known as "the father of numbers":\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras\n\nArchimedes (Greek: Αρχιμήδης ) (c. 287 BC – 212 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and philosopher born in the seaport colony of Syracuse, Sicily. He is considered by some historians of mathematics to be one of the greatest mathematicians in antiquity; Carl Friedrich Gauss considered him one of the two greatest ever (the other being himself.)\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes\n\nAl-Khwarizmi is held to be the father of algebra:\nhttp://www.math.umd.edu/~czorn/hist_algebra.pdf\n\nRene Descartes (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650), also known as Cartesius, is considered to be the father of modern mathematics:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_Descartes\nhttp://www.hi.is/~joner/eaps/descart2.htm
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I know of two:\n\nTranslation and rotation: \n\n1) translation :\n\n Take a rectangle and cut a diagonal and extended the lines  from all three side of the triangle at right angle to it  from the side that is made from cutting the rectangle until those lines equal the lenght of the side of the triangle drawn from  and it  form three boxes  around all three sides of the triangle. Now let take the big side an calulate the square  of it ,then calulate the squares of the other two sides and add themup,  it should equal the square of the big side and that proves the pythagorean theorem. \n\nRotation: \n\nSee the show : Project Mathematics by Cal tech : Entitled "The Pythagorean Theorem" it explain better  than I can, It worth watching. Very good show on Math & Geometry
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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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The statement of the Theorem was discovered on a Babylonian tablet circa 1900-1600 B.C. Whether Pythagoras (c.560-c.480 B.C.) or someone else from his School was the first to discover its proof can't be claimed with any degree of credibility. Euclid's (c 300 B.C.) Elements furnish the first and, later, the standard reference in Geometry. In fact Euclid supplied two very different proofs: the Proposition I.47 (First Book, Proposition 47) and VI.31. The Theorem is reversible which means that a triangle whose sides satisfy a2 + b2 = c2 is necessarily right angled. Euclid was the first (I.48) to mention and prove this fact.
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Try maththeocracy.com\n\nIt tells everything God knows about mathematics.
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Ohh, piece of cake.\n\nPho = 7.342, Phum = 5.918\nThat, I believe, was discovered by the ancient greek mathematician, friend of Mr Pythagoras himself, Mr HighPotInUse.\n\nRumour has it that he pulled those two figures out of his butthole during a marijuana high.
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Find a way to know the rest of him.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem#Proofs\n\nCheck below for the "proof of converse".  It's the most straightforward there is.\n\nBasically, you try to construct a triangle with x,y, and z, only to discover that it is congruent to a right triangle!
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einsteins was a fool by his own standards and a simple translator realistically. All he did was interpret ancient knowledge already know by egyptians and summarians. He tried to understand them then ended up receiving credit for inventing them. Just as the Pythagoras' Theorem was decoded by a guy named Pythagreus or (somthing like that), a Greek i believe. But it was developed in Egypt just that he was the first the translate it. Most these so called great minds are mental migets.
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The Pythagorean Theorem can only be applied to Right Triangles only.\n\nIn a right triangle, the side opposite the 90 degree angle is called the HYPOTENUSE. The other two sides are called LEGS.\n\nTHEOREM:\nThe square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the legs. \n\nEQUATION: Supposing,\nc = hypotenuse\na = first leg\nb = second leg\n\nThen:\n\nc^2 = a^2 + b^2\n\nThis is the conventional way of assigning the letters to the sides of the right triangle. However, if other letters will be assigned, then determine which letter will represent the hypotenuse so that its square can be placed on the left side of the equation. The others will be placed on the right side.
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The possibilities are infinite...You can see everything from the "al-bridge-a" of your ship...Just "Googol" it to find out!\nIf he had Avogadro's number, he could discover the mole who's spying on him...\nSee you later; I have a leftover piece of pi in the fridge...(Pi are squared?  No, pi are round!)
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One. \n\nThis relation is really just Pythagoras' theorem, hiding in a new form. Recall:\n\nH^2 = A^2 + B^2 \n\nThat is, the square of the hypotenuse H is the sum of the squares of the other two sides A and B, for a right triangle with sides A, B and hypotenuse H.  \n\nOf course, A=H*cosx and B=H*sinx for some angle x, so that \n\nH^2= (H^2)*(sinx*sinx + cosx*cosx)\n\nleading to the result:\n\n1=sinx*sinx + cosx*cosx\n\nThis result also is nicely connected to the simple fact that \n\nx - x = 0 \n\nbecause \n\nexp(i*x)=cosx + i*sinx and\nexp(-i*x)=cosx -i*sinx\n\nwhere i=sqrt(-1). \n\nThen multiplying these two, \n\nsinx*sinx + cosx*cosx=exp(i*x)*exp(-i*x)=\nexp(i*[x-x])=exp(0)=1
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Pythagoras (of Samos, born about 569-82 BC - died about 507 BC) was a Greek philosopher who made important developments in mathematics, astronomy, and the theory of music. The theorem now known as Pythagoras's theorem was known to the Babylonians 1000 years earlier but he may have been the first to prove it. \n\nIn any right triangle, the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse (the long side of a right triangle opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of areas of the squares whose sides are the two legs (i.e. the two sides other than the hypotenuse, the adjacent and opposite in sine, cosine and tangent workings). \n\nIf we let c be the length of the hypotenuse and a and b be the lengths of the other two sides, the theorem can be expressed as the equation\n\nThis equation provides a simple relation among the three sides of a right triangle so that if the lengths of any two sides are known, the length of the third side can be found.\n\nI was taught this in a long jumpo sand pit, with 25 billard balls.\nmy old teacher, Mr Chadwick, made a line of 5 balls, and this was the hypotenuse. he then drew in the rest of the triangle. he squared the 5 balls, by making a square of 5 by 5 balls, (25 in all).\n\nthen he put balls on the other lines. three fitted onto the short side, and four onto the next side. he then squared the two other sides. 3 x3 and 4 x 4 (9 and 16, when added together = 25. \n\nhe showed me that 27 years ago, It was amazing, and the reason I am now a teacher.
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He is a mathematician. See this site: http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=4510
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There are quite a few method for proving pythagoras theorem. I feel that easiest and neatest is by similarity of triagles ..\n\nproof 6 of the link
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No no solution since n>2\n\nPierre de Fermat died in 1665. Today we think of Fermat as a number theorist, in fact as perhaps the most famous number theorist who ever lived. It is therefore surprising to find that Fermat was in fact a lawyer and only an amateur mathematician. Also surprising is the fact that he published only one mathematical paper in his life, and that was an anonymous article written as an appendix to a colleague's book.\n\nThere is a statue of Fermat and his muse in his home town of Toulouse:\n(Click it to see a larger version)\n\n\nBecause Fermat refused to publish his work, his friends feared that it would soon be forgotten unless something was done about it. His son, Samuel undertook the task of collecting Fermat's letters and other mathematical papers, comments written in books, etc. with the object of publishing his father's mathematical ideas. In this way the famous 'Last theorem' came to be published. It was found by Samuel written as a marginal note in his father's copy of Diophantus's Arithmetica. \n\nFermat's Last Theorem states that \n\nxn + yn = zn \n\nhas no non-zero integer solutions for x, y and z when n > 2. Fermat wrote \n\nI have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain.