Beyond Pythagoras

... BEYOND PYTHAGORAS MATHS COURSEWORK INTRODUCTION Pythagoras was a Greek mathematician and philosopher. He lived in 400 BC and was one of the first great mathematical thinkers. He spent most of his life in Sicily and southern Italy. He had a group of follows who went around and thought other people what he had taught them who were called the Pythagoreans. Pythagoras himself is best known for proving that the Pythagorean Theorem was true. The Sumerians, two thousand years earlier, already knew that it was generally true, and they used it in their measurements, but Pythagoras proved that it would always be true. The Pythagorean Theorem says that in a right triangle, the sum of the squares of the two right-angle sides will always be the same as the square of the hypotenuse (the long side). A2 + B2 = C2 Pythagoras theorem can also help in real life. Here is an example: Say you were walking

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