Murun Batjargal 3/27/14 History of Pythagorean theorem

Pythagorean theorem & Pythagoras relationships to Geometry

Pythagoras was one of the greatest mathematics. Pythagoras if often referred to as the first pure mathematic. This is because Pythagoras created the Pythagorean theorem. He also created a school after he returned from prison in Babylonia. In the school he shared his knowledge with his students. Pythagoras believed that math is the basic for everything and geometry is the highest form of mathematical studies. When Pythagoras died he was best know for creating the Pythagorean theorem, which is still used today.

The Pythagorean theorem is a way to find the hypotenuse (the longest side of a triangle and also not touching the right triangle) of a right triangle. To get the length of a hypotenuse you square the other lengths and then add them together then to get a number and that will equal the hypotenuse. For example a=15 b=20 and the hypotenuse is x. you first square 15 and 20 so 225 and 400. Now you add them together and get 625 and now divide to get the square root, which in this case would be 25. So a=15 b=20 and c=25!

The early Geometry came from need by people to measure and to build things. People needed to be able to have some rules, measurements and buildings. The rules early geometry made definitions for points, street lines, circle, and angles and street lines the cross. The street lines cross create angles and the Pythagorean theorem only worked with 3 lines and a 90-degree angle. For example I made a pyramid and every thing is 90-degree if its not 90-degree it will look terrible. For example if some building was small and another building was very big you could still use same rules.