What did pythagoras invent?
Pythagoras believed that everything in nature has a RHYTHM which could be expressed in numbers. Based on this philosophical idea Pythagoras discovered the five lines of music and musical scale. Pythagoras invented the punctuation signs in order to regulate the spaces and compasses in the music. Pythagoras was the Einstein of the Antiquity. He saw everything in nature thru mathematics. Einstein saw everything in nature thru electricity. Indeed the electricity is the common denominator of the universe.
Pythagoras’ Theorem Pythagoras Theorem asserts that for a right triangle with short sides of length a and b and long side of length c a2 + b2 = c2 Of course it has a direct geometric formulation. Click on & move the node to change the shape of the triangle. For many of us, this is the first result in geometry that does not seem to be self-evident. This has apparently been a common experience throughout history, and proofs of this result, of varying rigour, have appeared early in several civilizations. We present a selection of proofs, dividing roughly into three types, depending on what geometrical transformations are involved.
