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The Pythagorean Theorem was one of the earliest theorems known to ancient civilizations.

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Pythagoras founded the Pythagorean School of Mathematics in Cortona, a Greek seaport in Southern Italy. He is credited with many contributions to mathematics although some of them may have actually been the work of his students.

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The Pythagorean Theorem was one of the earliest theorems known to ancient civilizations.

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Pythagoras himself was not simply a mathematician. He was an important philosopher who believed that the world was ruled by harmony and that numerical relationships could best express this harmony.

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- It is unknown who actually figured out the pythagoream theorem.

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Pythagoras Facts
Pythagoras, more accurately known as Pythagoras of Samos, was best known as a Greek mathematician, but he was also a philosopher and founder of the religious movement Pythagoreanism.

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surprisingly not a lot is known about Pythagorus because he was only discovered years and years after his death

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surprisingly not a lot is known about Pythagorus because he was only discovered years and years after his death

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Everyone knows his famous theorem, but not who discovered it 1000 years before him

Pythagoras was also called Pythagoras of Samos or Pythagoras the Samian.

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- Pythagoras founded his religion in Croton around 530 BC
- It is said that Pythagoras also made important contributions in music, astronomy, medicine, and divination.

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- He founded his own religion but he and his followers were persecuted because of their religious beliefs and political involvement

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He founded his religion in Croton around 530 BC, but he and his followers were widely persecuted for their religious views and political involvement.

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- The Egyptians  used the pythagorean to lay out their fields before the greeks founded

- The Pythagoreans were known for their pure lives they didn't eat beans because they thought beans were not pure enough

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- The Pythagoras Theorem is Pythagoras' most famous mathematical contribution.
- Although Pythagoras is  the one credited with the famous theorem, it is said that the Babylonians knew the result for certain specific triangles at least a millennium earlier than Pythagoras.

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Apart from a a mathematician he was also a philosopher and founder of the religious movement Pythagoreanism.

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His theorem and all his mathematical discovery was never written by Pythagoras himself. All that we know comes to us from the writings of Philolaus and other later Pythagorean scholars.

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- The theorem is believed to have been used by the ancient Babylonians and the Indians.
- It is believed that Pythagoras was the first person to refer to himself as a philosopher, whose word origins mean "lover of ideas."

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The Pythagorean Theorem was one of the earliest theorems known to ancient civilizations.

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According to legend, Pythagoras was so happy when he discovered the theorem that he offered a sacrifice of oxen.

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-The Pythagoras Theorem is named after the ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras. Besides a mathematician, Pythagoras was a philosopher.
- Pythagoras was the first philosopher to represent musical harmonies as simple ratios.
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It is a statement that has to contain a right angle

When Pythagorus Theorem was created they used the letters B, E, and H, instead of A, B, and C
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- Astronomy: locating apparent positions of celestial objects.
Ex: Planets, stars, etc.
- Navigation: find the distance between two things, places, objects, etc.
Ex: on oceans, aircrafts, in space.
- More uses:
Statistics, oceanography, computer graphics, economics, etc

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From Samas Greece