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Pythagoras was a smart guy: sure, he had some pretty rogue beliefs about beans, but the man knew his triangles, something most of us will have become acutely aware of when high school geometry ...
Pythagoras realized that these harmony-producing ratios all involved the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4. Therefore, he concluded, their sum, 10, was the key number for developing a theory of the universe.
Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson have published a paper on a new way to prove the 2000-year-old Pythagorean theorem. Their work began in a high school math contest.
Two high school students have proved the Pythagorean theorem in a way that one early 20th-century mathematician thought was impossible: using trigonometry. Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson ...
Citing ethical concerns, Pythagoras and his followers didn't eat animals, according to the virtual exhibit. As a result, before his kind was referred to as vegetarians, they were called Pythagoreans.
The student's discoveries were confirmed by the math community this week after their proofs were published in the American Mathematical Monthly.
Mathematics Pythagoras was wrong about the maths behind pleasant music. It is said that the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras came up with the idea that musical note combinations sound best in ...
It turns out that the Babylonians got there before Pythagoras, and by quite a significant margin. “Any history book will tell you that trigonometry goes back to ancient Greek astronomers ...
Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson have published a paper on a new way to prove the 2000-year-old Pythagorean theorem. Their work began in a high school math contest.