 | Gerald Vision - Philosophy - 2009 - 322 pages
...that such-and-such an act is morally right, or that this substance contains hydrogen atoms, or that the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the square of its other two sides. Then our two questions are as follows: Are the straightforward... | |
 | Dennis Urbans - Religion - 2005 - 286 pages
...Pythagoras (mathematician): Described as the first pure mathematician. The Theorem of Pythagoras states that the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Film and TV Personalities: Pamela Anderson, Bridgette... | |
 | Robyn Arianrhod - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 350 pages
...study of geometry, the Pythagoreans are famous for Pythagoras's theorem about right-angled triangles: 'The square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the two adjacent sides' - a result which mathematicians of other cultures... | |
 | Eli Maor - Pythagorean theorem - 2007 - 296 pages
...nor thirty centuries, affect the clearness, or the charm, of Geometrical truth. Such a theorem as, "the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the sides" is as dazzlingly beautiful now as it was in the day when Pythagoras... | |
 | Daniel Heydon - Numerology - 2007 - 516 pages
...philosopher who lived in the sixth century BC Today, he is chiefly remembered for his mathematical theorem; the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Few people are aware that this same man is also considered... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1857 - 340 pages
...being the base, BC the perpendicular, and AC the hypotenuse. ART. 290. It is a known principle, that the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the stun of the squares of the other two sides. KEVIEW. — 287. What is the rulo for square root?... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1908 - 660 pages
...its diameter, and on the angle inscribed in a semi-circle. To Pythagoras is ascribed the theorem that the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of Ihrt squares of the other two sides. His school proved that the sum of the angles of any... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1920 - 472 pages
...mathematician in the world. It is said of Pythagoras that, when he discovered how to demonstrate the theorem "the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the sides," he proceeded to celebrate the event by sacrificing a hecatomb... | |
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The square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. 
