PROJECT ON :

PYTHAGORAS THEOREM
PRESENTED BY GROUP 5
CREATED BY SOURAV NETI
SUBJECT TEACHER D.K. BHUI Sir

GROUP MEMBERS :
SWATI SAGARIKA ROUT ( L )
MITALI GOUDA
SOURAV NETI ( A.L. )
SATYA PRAKASH RAY
RAKESH KUMAR BEHERA
ABHIJEET LENKA

Pythagoras (~580-500 B.C.)

He was a Greek philosopher responsible for
important developments in mathematics,
astronomy and the theory of music.

Pythagoras of Samos was an lonian Greek

philosopher, mathematician , and has been
credited as the founder of the movement
called Pythagoreanism . Most of the
information about Pythagoras was written
down centuries after he lived , so very little
reliable information is known about him . He
was born on the island of Samos and
travelled visiting Egypt and Greece and
maybe India and in 520 BC returned to
Samos . Around 530 BC he moved to Croton
in Magna Graecia , and there established

Pythagoras made influential contributions to

philosophy and religion in the late 6th century
BC . He is also reversed as a great
mathematician and scientist and is best
known for Pythagoras theorem which bears
his name . However , because legend and
obfuscation cloud his work even more than
that of the other pre-Socratic philosophers ,
one can give only a tentative account of his
teachings , and some have questioned
whether he contributed much to mathematics
or natural philosophy . Many of the

Some accounts mention that the philosophy

associated with Pythagoras was related to
mathematics and that numbers were
important . It was said that he was the first
man to call himself as philosopher , or lover
of wisdom , and Pythagorean ideas exercised
a marked influence on Plato , and through
him , all of western philosophy .

SCULPTOR OF
PYTHAGORAS

STATEMENT
In a right triangle the square of hypotenuse is
equal to the sum of the square of other two sides .

MATERIALS REQUIRED
1. Colour paper
2. Pair of scissors
3.Glue
4. Geometry Box

PROCEDURE
1) LET US DRAW A TRIANGLE ABC OF SIDES OF 3CM , 4CM AND 5CM RESPECTIVELY .
2)TAKE OR DRAW ANOTHER TRIANGLE OF SAME MEASUREMENT AND DRAW OR CUT SQUARES OF SIDES 3CM ,
4CM AND 5CM AND PASTE THEM ON SIDES OF TRIANGLE .
3)TAKE ANOTHER TWO SQUARES OF SIDES 3CM , 4CM AND 5CM AND PASTE FOUR TRIANGLES ACCORDING .
4)TAKE ANOTHER SQUARE OF SIDE 5 CM AND PASTE YOUR PIECES OF THE TRIANGLE , SO THAT THIS FORM A
SQUARE OF SIDE (A+B) .

Here we have the first

figure :
0

1
a

5c
m

2
1

4 cm

B
0

FIG 1

3
cm

1. cut a
triangle with
base 4 cm
and height 3
cm
2. measure
the length of
the
hypotenuse .

a
a

a a

FIG 2

Consider a square PQRS with sides a + b

P
b

c
b

b
a

FIG 3

4 congruNow, the square is cut into

- 4 congruent right-angled
triangles and
- 1 smaller square with
-sides
n- 1 smaller
square with sides
c.
c

a+b

a+b

FIG 4

a+b

P
b

b
c

a+b
a
S

Area of square ABCD

= (a + b)

b
a

Area of square PQRS

ab
= 4 2

a 2 + 2ab + b 2

Q
a

2ab + c 2

a2 + b2 = c2

+c

FIG 5

Theorem states that:

"The area of the square built upon the hypotenuse
of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the areas
of the squares upon the remaining sides."
The Pythagorean Theorem asserts that for a right triangle,
the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the
squares of the other two sides: a2 + b2 = c2

The figure above at the right is a visual display of the

theorem's conclusion. The figure at the left contains a
proof of the theorem, because the area of the big, outer,
green square is equal to the sum of the areas of the four
red triangles and the little, inner white square:
c2 = 4(ab/2) + (a - b)2 = 2ab + (a2 - 2ab + b2) = a2 +

ANIMATED PROOF OF PYTHAGORAS THEOREM

WE HAVE PROVED PYTHAGORAS

THEOREM BUT THERE IS ONE
MORE WAY TO PROVE AND THAT
IS SHOWN FROM THE NEXT
SLIDE .

STATEMENT
In a right triangle the square of hypotenuse is
equal to the sum of the square of other two sides .

MATERIALS REQUIRED
1. Colour paper
2. Pair of scissors
3.Glue
4. Geometry Box

PROCEDURE
1) Let us draw a triangle ABC of sides of 3cm , 4cm and 5cm respectively .
2)Take or draw another triangle of same measurement and draw or cut squares of sides 3cm , 4cm and 5cm and paste them on sides of
triangle .
3)Take another two squares of sides 3cm , 4cm and 5cm and paste four triangles according .
4)Take another square of side 5 cm and paste your pieces of the triangle , so that this form a square of side (a+b) .

FIG 6

c
b
b

a
a
b
a

a
a

5) The area of fig.6 and fig.3 are (a+b)^2

respectively . Hence the areas of 5 and 3 are
equal
6) Now , we remove four triangles from fig. 5
and 3 .
So the remaining figures must have the same
Area of square = (side)^2
Byarea
removing
. Hence , areas of fig.6 and fig.7
= a^2are
b
four
triangles
equal
.
Similarly,
from fig.6 we
Area of second square =
a
(side)^2
b
b
get
a
a
=>a^2=a^2+b^2
this figure .

FIG 7

By removing four triangles from fig.3 we get

the following figure .
a

FIG 8

a
a

Thus , by comparing fig. 7 and 8 we get that [ a^2 +

b ^2 ] .

HENCE PROVED

ANIMATION OF PYTHAGORAS THEOREM

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