the area of the yellow square on the longest side MUST be the same as the squares on the other two sides. You have created a visual proof of Pythagoras' theorem!

Discovered in the 5 th century B.C. by none other than Pythagoras himself, the Pythagorean Theorem (a 2 + b 2 = c 2) lies at the very foundations of trigonometry. That’s why it was particularly ...

What began as a bonus question in a high school math contest has resulted in a staggering 10 new ways to prove the ancient ...

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Although these equations appear similar to Pythagoras' equation, Fermat's Last Theorem claims that these equations have no solutions. The difficulty in proving that this is the case revolves ...

Here's the deal; there was this Greek guy named Pythagoras, who lived over 2,000 years ago during the sixth century B.C.E. Pythagoras spent a lot of time thinking about math, astronomy ...

That proposition is known as Pythagorean Theorem. But proving Fermat's Last Theorem has been a near impossibility over the centuries. It had remained unsolved until the British mathematician ...