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Pythagoras

Pythagoras. Pythagoras. Lived from 570 to 490 BCE. Pythagoras. Pythagoras traveled constantly with his father but spent his early childhood years in Samos, Greece. Pythagoras. Pythagoras was “famous” for a number of things;

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Pythagoras

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  1. Pythagoras

  2. Pythagoras • Lived from 570 to 490 BCE.

  3. Pythagoras • Pythagoras traveled constantly with his father but spent his early childhood years in Samos, Greece.

  4. Pythagoras • Pythagoras was “famous” for a number of things; • An expert on the idea of having a soul after death; he thought that a soul was immortal and went through multiple reincarnations. • A strict way of living; he found it necessary to emphasis dietary restrictions, religious ritual and rigorous self discipline. • He was most commonly known for his mathematics; he founded a school of Mathematics which led up to his finding of the commonly known Pythagorean Theorem.

  5. Pythagoras Pythagorean Theorem. It is a statement about triangles with a right angle. Pythagoras said "The area of the square built upon the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares upon the remaining sides.”

  6. Pythagoras This is a statue that is a representation that most of his life, he was very into his work and was passionate about what he did thus enabling him to make such discoveries that has kept his name around for centuries.

  7. Pythagoras This is a statue showing Pythagoras, more or less, becoming a side of a right triangle.

  8. Pythagoras This shows how very intrigued people were by his thinking and discoveries. To some, he was viewed more as a God.

  9. Pythagoras This is a Pythagorean Tree which was named after Pythagoras because it is contracted from squares. Because of this, each triple of touching squares encloses a right triangle. This configuration was used to depict the Pythagorean Theorem, itself.

  10. Works Cited • Huffman, Carl. "Pythagoras (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 21 Sep 2011. Web. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoras/. • Khalaf, Salim. "Pythagoras ." Pythagoras, Phoenician/Greek Mathematician . Sep 1996. Web. http://phoenicia.org/pythagoras.html. • Morris, Stephanie. The Pythagorean Theorem. Department of Mathematics Education, Web. http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/EMT669/Student.Folders/Morris.Stephanie/EMT.669/Essay.1/Pythagorean.html.

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