Very little is known for certain about Pythagoras. Probably he was born on Samos around 580 BC. He founded a school in Croton, a Greek colony in what is now southern Italy.
Here we show Pythagoras' theorem in a tiling. This tiling can be seen in floors, for example.
In the site Artiludios we show two "mostrations" of Pythagoras' theorem, one based in Euclides:
The second is a proof due to Baravalle:
REFERENCES
John Stillwell - Mathematics and its History (pag. 10) - Springer-Verlag
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Pythagoras' Theorem in Artiludios (Spanish)
Two animations showing two 'mostrations' of Pythagoras' Theorem: one inspired in Euclides poof and another in Baravalle.
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