lundi 21 février 2011

Pythagoras


Pythagoras is an philosopher, mathematician & scientist, he was born in 570 BC at Samos in Greek.

His father Mnesarchus was a gem-engraver and his mother was Parthénis.

Pythagoras was an Athlete in the age of 17, at the age of 18 he leaves Samos and went to Lesbos.

In 547 BC he went to Egypt to learn geometries, astronomies by Egyptians. He was the 1st who invite a theorem to calculate the hypotenuse or other sides of a triangle.

So his theorem says that only in a right angled triangle the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

(a² + b² = c²).

After that he returned to Greek and opened a school, he teaches geometries…

Around 530 BC, he moved to crouton, a Greek colony in southern Italy, and there set up a religious sect.

His followers pursued the religious rites and practices developed by Pythagoras, and studied his philosophical theories.

The society took an active role in the politics of Crouton, but this eventually led to their downfall.

The Pythagorean meeting-places were burned, and Pythagoras was forced to flee the city.

He died in 495 BC at Metapontum at the age of 83, Finally his theorem was published by his students and named “Pythagorean theorem”

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