Breard's interest in Chinese scientific history was ignited by Chinese Mathematics: A Concise History, a book that chronicles ...

For centuries, the Pythagorean Theorem has occupied a unique position in mathematics: both elementary and profound. Its ...

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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 ...

IT may not be generally known that the Theorem of Pythagoras, Euclid I. 47, is closely connected with the Theory of Repeating Patterns in space of two dimensions. The simplest proof by dissection of ...

For over 2,000 years, mathematicians believed a purely trigonometric proof of Pythagoras’ theorem was impossible. But two high school students from Louisiana may have just changed that. Their ...

IN many respects an excellent little book, in which blank pages are left for the pupil to insert his own proofs of the simpler propositions which are treated as riders. It is not in accordance with ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pythagoras Theorem Blackboard What began as a bonus question in a high school math contest has resulted in a staggering 10 new ...