A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her ...

Pythagoras' theorem describes the relationship between the three sides of a right-angled triangle. It is incredibly useful for engineering and construction and was used by humans centuries before ...

For centuries, students have learned that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Known as the Pythagorean Theorem, this ...

Pythagoras’ theorem — a 2 + b 2 = c 2, relating the length of a right triangle’s hypotenuse to those of its other two sides — has been proven many times with algebra and geometry (SN: 4/2/03).

Pythagoras? Theorem, explaining the relationship between the three sides of a right angled triangle, is one of the most famous in maths. It?s been studied and put to use for thousands of years ...

Veljan offers the following modern-day visualization of the Pythagorean theorem’s area relationship: A pizza shop makes three sizes of pizzas; their diameters are the sides of a right triangle.

The Pythagorean theorem gives a fundamental relationship between the lengths of the three sides of a right-angled triangle. We make the case for which theorems of elementary Euclidean geometry should ...

Hundreds of years before a Greek scholar outlined his proof of the Pythagorean theorem, ancient Chinese scholars proved it using just 17 characters, a renowned Chinese mathematician highlighted in ...