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#1 2012-11-09 12:20:57
- Bosworth.Joshua
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Teach Pythagorean Theorem in 10 seconds
Everyone knows A²+B²=C², but this is often taught without any explanation as to why.
I'm not an established user yet (no link posting) so
[Thanks to the admin for posting the animation!]
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#2 2012-11-09 12:41:55
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Re: Teach Pythagorean Theorem in 10 seconds
I have posted the animation here.
That is the best I can do to just keep the math and leave out the strong comments.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the slightest notion what it means.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
#3 2012-11-09 12:57:07
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Very interesting...
Life isn’t a simple Math: there are always other variables. -[unknown]
But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end. -Aristotle
#4 2012-11-23 08:23:52
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Intresting stuff
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#5 2012-11-23 19:46:48
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hi Bosworth.Joshua
Neat animation, thanks! 
Bob
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself..........Galileo Galilei
#6 2013-01-07 12:48:27
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"The conditions imposed on functions, become a source of difficulties which will manage to be avoided only by means of new researches about the principles of integral calculus"
Thomas Ioannes Stiltes. ... I made it!
#7 2013-01-09 02:14:44
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Hi there! These are very simple and smart proofs. I suggest you also to give a look to:
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/euclid/Elements.pdf
Book1, Prop.48, Prop.49
the second one (if i remember good) is the Inverse theorem (i.e. if a triangle is such that c²=a²+b², then it's rectangle).
30+2=28 (Mom's identity)
#8 2013-01-09 05:59:29
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hi Fistfiz
Thanks for that link. That brings back memories. I had to learn that proof many, many years ago.
Bob
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself..........Galileo Galilei
#9 2013-01-09 07:19:43
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You're welcome.
30+2=28 (Mom's identity)