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History of the Pythagorean Theorem

By kgamez90
  • Period: 2500 BCE to

    History of the Pythagorean Theorem

  • 2000 BCE

    Egyptian Workman’s rope

    Egyptian Workman’s rope
    Egyptians used knotted rope with twelve equally ­spaced
    knots to form a right angle when building their pyramids
  • 1500 BCE

    Babylonians write rules on clay tablets

    Babylonians write rules on clay tablets
  • 1100 BCE

    Tschou Gun: Geometric characterization of right angles

    Tschou Gun: Geometric characterization of right angles
  • 520 BCE

    Pythagoras creates proof

    Pythagoras creates proof
  • 300 BCE

    Euclid writes about the theorem

    Euclid writes about the theorem
  • 250

    Liu Hui: Visual Packing Proof

    Liu Hui: Visual Packing Proof
  • 1150

    Bhaskara creates dissection proof

    Bhaskara creates dissection proof
  • 1500

    Leonardo da Vinci's Pythagorean Proposition

    Leonardo da Vinci's Pythagorean Proposition

  • Fermat's Last Theorem

    Fermat's Last Theorem

  • President James Garfield's Trapezoid Proof

    President James Garfield's Trapezoid Proof

  • 12 yr old Einstein proves Pyth Thm

    12 yr old Einstein proves Pyth Thm

  • Elisha Loomis publishes "The Pythagorean Proposition"

    Elisha Loomis publishes "The Pythagorean Proposition"

  • Bruce Ratner's Gen IQ Model

    Bruce Ratner's Gen IQ Model