 | Thomas Christensen - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 350 pages
...listening to the corps sonore that the Egyptian priests first discovered the Pythagorean theorem, to wit, the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of its two sides.10 How could this be? Rameau thought that in perceiving the arithmetic... | |
 | Lancelot Hogben - Mathematics - 1968 - 662 pages
...Fig. 25 makes with the landmark a horizontal angle of 45°. Demonstration 4 The square of the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides. 3f Fig. 53. The Theorem of Pythagoras This is the... | |
 | L. Bostock, F. S. Chandler, A. Shepherd, Ewart Smith - 1993 - 516 pages
...whose entries form a magic square. I 7. Pythagoras' theorem states that the area of the square drawn on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares drawn on the other two sides of the triangle. Investigate other similar shapes... | |
 | John Ewing - Mathematics - 1994 - 348 pages
...nothing else." To quote an example which the author himself gives, the proposition that "the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides" is a categorical proposition, and is not therefore mathematical.... | |
 | David Fideler - Science - 1993 - 446 pages
...achievements, one of the most profound and far-reachinghas at its origin the discovery by Pythagoras that the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides containing the right angle. Two conditions were involved in Pythagoras'... | |
 | David R. Olson, Nancy Torrance - Education - 1996 - 324 pages
...strongest. Surely no one is going to deny that 2 + 2 is 4 in both China and Greece. Surely the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides, whether we call this Pythagoras' theorem, or Gou Gu. Indeed, indeed.... | |
 | Plinio Prioreschi - Medicine - 1996 - 651 pages
...himself discovered what we call the Pythagorean Theorem. In Proclus's In Euclidem, we find: The square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the sides enclosing the right angle. If we pay any attention to those who like to recount... | |
 | Mary Biggs - History - 1996 - 544 pages
...my head which seems to have inhabited some corner of my brain since that early time: "The square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides!" There it sticks, but what of it, ye gods, what of it? JESSIE B.... | |
 | Michael F. N. Dixon - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 260 pages
...procedures that deliver a conclusion whose certainty is that of a priori definition. "The square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of squares on the other two sides" states a Pythagorean axiom of given truthvalue within the closed system... | |
 | 298 pages
...(notably Copernicus and Kepler). Schoolchildren are taught the Pythagorean theorem, that the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides. Fewer students may remember that Pythagoras symbolized the divergent... | |
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Pythagoras' theorem states that the square of the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides. 
