Pythagorean Theorem

The pythagorean theorem is one of the earliest theorem known by ancient civilizations. It is named by the famous Greek mathematician and phisolosopher Pythagora. The Pythagorean Theorem is a statement about triangles containing a right triangle. It states:

"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."

According to the Pythagorean Theorem, the sum of the areas of two squares, is equal to the area of a third square. Though Pythagoras is credited with the famous theorem, it is likely that the Babylonians knew the result for certain specific triangles at least a millennium earlier than Pythagoras.

Bhaskara, a Hindu mathematician only explanation for the proof of the Pythagorean Theorem was, simply, "Behold".These proofs and the geometrical discovery surrounding the Pythagorean Theorem led to one of the earliest problems in the theory of numbers known as the Pythgorean problem.

The Pythagorean Theorem formula is: