History of Geometry WGinn97

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    Pythagorean Theorem

    Pythagorean Theorem
    The history of the Pythagorean theorem. The Pythagorean theorem takes its name from the ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras (569 B.C.?-500 B.C.?), who was perhaps the first to offer a proof of the theorem. But people had noticed the special relationship between the sides of a right triangle long before Pythagoras. (a2 + b2 = c2)