Questions tagged [pythagorean-proposition]
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President James A. Garfield and the Pythagorean proposition
As some of you may recall, President James A. Garfield published at some point of his life a proof of the celebrated Pythagorean proposition.
I am interested in acquiring a pdf copy of President ...
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Did Baudhayan publish Pythagoras theorem before Pythagoras?
In NCERT textbook for class X mathematics, it is given that Baudhayan gave the relation between the hypotenuse square and sum of squares of the other sides of a right angled triangle. Is it true?
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How old is the Pythagorean Theorem? [closed]
More specifically, what is the oldest evidence of human awareness of what we now call the Pythagorean Theorem?
The phrase, "evidence of human awareness" was used to exclude a different question of ...
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Essential basic geometrical discoveries still possible in our era?
Can we imagine that scientific can still discover some basic simple but essential geometric rules such as the Pythagorean theorem in a near of far future:
$a^2 + b^2 = c^2$
Or do we consider that ...
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Are there primitive Pythagoras triplets (in integers), being with all the terms as powerful numbers?
I'm searching a trusted historical sources about primitive Pythagoras triplets as being powerful integers (numerical examples), or a notable work of impossibility of such a triples, but couldn't find ...
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History of Plato's formula for generating pythagorean triples
I'm interested in the history behind Plato's formula $2m,m^2-1,m^2+1$ for generating pythagorean triples. Was Plato the first mathematician to come up with such a formula?
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On Einstein's proof of the so-called Pythagorean theorem
Part I
In E. Maor's book [2, p. 117] we read that, somewhere in his Autobiographical Notes, Einstein wrote this:
An uncle told me about the Pythagorean theorem before the holy geometry booklet had ...
