Pythagoras

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Pythagoras

               Pythagoras

     Pythagoras was a very significant person in the history of the world.  He made
many contributions to the fields of math,  music,  and astronomy.  Pythagoras's teachings
and beliefs that were once taught by him in his own school in ancient Greece,  are still
taught today.
     The thing that Pythagoras is probably the most famous for is the Pythagorean
Theorem.  The Pythagorean Theorem is used in the field of mathematics and it states the
following:  the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the
squares of the two other sides.  This means that if one makes a square (with all sides
equal in length) out of a triangle with a right angle,  the areas of the squares made from
the two shorter sides,  when added together,  equal the area of the square made from the
long side.  Another geometrical discovery made by Pythagoras is that the diagonal of a
square is not a rational multiple of its side.  The latter discovery proved the existence of
irrational numbers and therefore changed the entire Greek mathematical belief that whole
numbers and their ratios could account for geometrical properties.
     Another contribution of Pythagoras and his follower is that of music...

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