Pythagoras

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Pythagoras

• and his theorem

By Elly Howells
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Pythagoras' life

• Pythagoras (???a???a?) of Samos (thats the Greek
  island where he was born)

Born 582-580 BC Died 547-496 BC
Tradition Pythagoreanism
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Influenced Philolaus, Alcmaeon, Plato,
Euclid,Archytas, Empedocles, Hippasus,
Neoplatonics, Kepler
He had a wife named Theano (a mathematician), two
daughters
and a slave named Zalmoxis
Influences Thales, Anaximander, Pherecydes
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Pythagoras was a weird man
He believed that ones soul was going to be
reincarnated into human, animal or vegetable.
Another thing he refused was to eat bread unless
it was cut in a certain way.
So he was a vegetarian, and he also refused to
eat beans, as he thought human-souls were in
them.
His way of dressing was rather unusual for the
time. He wore a gold diadem, a sweeping white
robe and trousers, which was not common.
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Pythagoras notable works
MUSICA UNIVERSALIS
THE GOLDEN RATIO!
PYTHAGOREAN TUNING
Main interests
POLITICS
METAPHYSICS
MATHEMATICS
MUSIC
ETHNICS
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Pythagoras Theorem
Thats the hypotenuse!
c
a
b
2
2
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Pythagoras proposed that c a b
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Meaning that
25
x
5
5
9
3
x


3
4
16
4
x
8
This will work with any right angled triangle!
TRY IT OUT