Question

Pythagoras 5 points about him

Answer 1

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• Pythagoras,commonly known as Pythagoras of Samos was a famous Greek mathematician and philosopher

• He was born on the island of Samos off the western cost of Asia Minor.

• He's known as the Father of Numbers as All things are numbers was his idea.

• He had a great impact on mathematics,theory of music and astronomy.

• He started a group of mathematics,called the Pythagoreans, who worshipped numbers.

• He's best known for proving the Pythagorean Theorem, which is about right triangles.

• The Pythagoras Theorem :

The sum of the areas of the two squares on the legs (a and b) equals the area of the square on the hypotenuse (c)

Refer to the attachment for Graphical Demonstration of the Pythagoras Theorem

Answer 2

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1. Pythagoras is often referred to as the first pure mathematician.
2. He was born on the island of Samos, Greece in 569 BC.
3. He died Alpproximately 500 - 475 BC, Metapontum Italy.

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• The sum of the angles of a triangle is equal to two right angles.

• The theorem of Pythagoras - for a right-angled triangle the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides. The Babylonians understood this 1000 years earlier, but Pythagoras proved it.

• Constructing figures of a given area and geometrical algebra. For example they solved various equations by geometrical means.

• The discovery of irrational numbers is attributed to the Pythagoreans, but seems unlikely to have been the idea of Pythagoras because it does not align with his philosophy the all things are numbers, since number to him meant the ratio of two whole numbers.

• The five regular solids (tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, icosahedron, dodecahedron). It is believed that Pythagoras knew how to construct the first three but not last two.

• Pythagoras taught that Earth was a sphere in the center of the Kosmos (Universe), that the planets, stars, and the universe were spherical because the sphere was the most perfect solid figure. He also taught that the paths of the planets were circular. Pythagoras recognized that the morning star was the same as the evening star, Venus.