Use Pythagoras’ theorem to show a triangle is right-angled or to find one side of a right-angled triangle when two sides are known. Make sure you are confident at substituting into and manipulating ...
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The Pythagorean Theorem—discovered by the Greek mathematician Pythagoras in the 6th century BCE—is a cornerstone of mathematics. Simply stated as a 2 + b 2 = c 2, the theorem posits that the sum of ...
ROBERT P. CREASE is a professor in the philosophy department at Stony Brook University, a historian at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and a columnist for Physics World. This is adapted from an ...
The Pythagorean Theorem troubled the devoted followers of the Greek philosopher, who built a worldview based on numbers. The formula comes in handy in construction, land surveying and navigation, ...
Two high school students proved the Pythagorean theorem in a way that one early 20th-century mathematician thought would be impossible: by using trigonometry. Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson, both ...
A clay tablet dating back to 1800-1600 BC challenges the belief that Pythagoras was the original discoverer of the Pythagorean Theorem. The tablet, named "YBC 7289," contains proofs and principles ...