3-2 Final Project Milestone Two Historical Significance
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3-2 Final Project Milestone Two: Historical Significance
Strand 1: Historical Significance
Who is Pythagoras? He is known to many people who are familiar with mathematics as the one who has a theorem named after him. A theorem that is used to find the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle. Pythagoras a Greek mathematician-
philosopher, said to have been born in Samos and then traveled to Egypt and Babylon at an early age. It was not until around 532 BCE that he moved to southern Italy where he eventually made his own school. He had to again leave for he was not liked by all in the city, so he then moved to Metapontum which is known today as Metaponto, Italy (Britannica, 2023). So, we now must wonder if this theorem actually started with this remarkably intelligent person, or did it start even sooner? Over the years of many scholars studies there have been creditable findings that prove that the famous Pythagoras theorem was in fact not found by Pythagoras alone it was found even before his time some say as far back as 1900 B.C. Discovered on Four Babylonian tablets, it was said to have used the same theorem to solve the hypotenuse of a right angle triangle this tablet also had the “Pythagorean triples” on them such as triangles with the sides of (3,4, and 5) (Britannica, 2023). These tablets, which are well over 1000 years apart from the time of Pythagoras’ discovery show others have come to the same conclusion when it comes to right angle triangles even though Pythagoras got the credit with his name on the theorem.
Around the year 300 B.C. Euclid provided a proof of the well-known Pythagorean
theorem that proof is known as “windmill” which featured in Euclid’s book I of the Elements. Different from and algebraic understanding of the Pythagorean theorem Euclid
used geometry for his proof (Lowe, 2018). This gained a lot of followers of his works’ attention and shined an even brighter light on the already famous Pythagorean theorem.
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