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This animation has nice EV and proves that in a Pythagorean triple, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides. Articles in which this image appears Pythagorean theorem, Pythagorean triple, Special right triangles FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Diagrams
In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem or Pythagoras' theorem is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry between the three sides of a right triangle.It states that the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares on the other two sides.
The Bride's chair proof of the Pythagorean theorem, that is, the proof of the Pythagorean theorem based on the Bride's Chair diagram, is given below. The proof has been severely criticized by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer as being unnecessarily complicated, with construction lines drawn here and there and a long line of deductive ...
The original can be viewed here: Illustration to Euclid's proof of the Pythagorean theorem.png: . Modifications made by Pbroks13. Licensing.
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At Dulcarnon (literally two-horned) is a reference to the supposed difficulty of the theorem by the 14-century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer in Troilus and Criseyde. The premise that Pythagoras had left some writings, the manuscripts which have been lost, forms the premise of Pythagoras' Revenge: A Mathematical Mystery by Arturo Sangalli ; it ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 20:44, 19 December 2006: 500 × 540 (6 KB): Gerbrant: Changed PQR to ABC, in line with the article (and Euclid, although he uses Greek letters of course).