Pythagoras was born in 572BC on the island of

Samos, Greece.
In about 530BC Pythagoras left Samos in hatred
for its ruler Polycrates and settled in Cretona,
Italy.
He joined a religious group known as the
Pythagoreans.
He formed a philosophical and religious school
where they studied mathematics, science and
music. This attracted many followers.
Pythagoras was an odd
man and believed that
souls transmigrated
between man and animal
by purification through
reincarnation.
He taught the principal
intervals of the musical
scale.
He believed heavenly
bodies were divided by
regular intervals according
to the laws of harmony.
Also during his time there he out the
mathematics of octaves and harmony.
Because of the secrecy in the group there is
nothing of Pythagoras writings or books.
Pythagoras was murdered at the age of 77,
in 495BC and the religious school was
separated.
Pythagoras Showed us that the
physical world can be modeled and
represented through pure math.


a
b
c
2 2 2
c b a
About 2,500 years
ago, a Greek
mathematician
named Pythagoras
discovered a special
relationship between
the sides of right
triangles.

Pythagoras realized that if
you have a right triangle,

3
4
5
and you square the lengths
of the two sides that make
up the right angle,

2
4
2
3
3
4
5
and add them together,

3
4
5
2
4
2
3
2 2
4 3
2 2
4 3
you get the same number
you would get by squaring
the other side.

2 2 2
5 4 3
3
4
5
Is that correct?

2 2 2
5 4 3
?
25 16 9
?
It is. And it is true for any
right triangle.

8
6
10
2 2 2
10 8 6
100 64 36
The two sides which
come together in a right
angle are called


The two sides which
come together in a right
angle are called


The two sides which
come together in a right
angle are called


The lengths of the legs are
usually called a and b.


a
b
The side across from the
right angle

a
b
is called the

And the length of the
hypotenuse
is usually labeled c.

a
b
c
The relationship Pythagorus
discovered is now called
The Pythagorean Theorem:

a
b
c
The Pythagorean Theorem
says, given the right triangle
with legs a and b and
hypotenuse c,
a
b
c
then
a
b
c
.
2 2 2
c b a