Mr. Pythagoras

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Mr. Pythagoras
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Who was he?

• Pythagoras or ???a???a? was a Greek Mathematician
  and is most famous for his theorem (a²b²c²)
• He was interested in lots of things including
  mathematics, music and politics.

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Early Life

• Born in Samos, Greece
• Born 582 B.C.
• Was taught by philosophers Thales, Anaximander,
  and Anaximenes.
• Was drawn away because of the way Polycrates
  ruled.

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Life

• His mother was called Pythais and his father,
  Mnesarchus.
• He visited Egypt, Arabia, Babylon, and India.
• After his travels, he moved to Italy to escape
  the government at that time.
• Of course, he also discovered his theorem.

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Pythagoreanism

• Pythagoras founded his own religion
• The people were called Pythagoreans
• It was based on religious, political, and
  philosophical beliefs.
• They believed in reincarnation Pythagoras
  thought himself to have been a Trojan warrior in
  a past life

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Theorem

• Pythagoras said that the two shorter sides on a
  Right-Angled Triangle could be squared and added
  together to find the longer side.
• For Example

7
4cm
a²b²c² So, first we square 3 4 to get
3²9 4²16 16925 v255 ? Or c5
3cm
5cm
?
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Interesting Facts

• Some think that Pythagoras actually stole his
  famous formula from the Babylonians(who had
  stolen it from the Indians)
• Discovered square roots by comparing square piles
  of rock
• He was a vegetarian

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Pythagoras Thank you for watching!
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Bibliography

• Pythagoras. Wikipedia.com
• Pythagoras. http//www.groups.dcs.st-
  and.ac.uk/history/mathmaticians/pythagoras.html
  
• Pythagoras.http//www.windows.ivv.nasa.gov/peopl
  e/
• ancient-epoch/pythagoras.html
• Plato.stanford.edu