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IM 67118, also known as Db 2-146, is an Old Babylonian clay tablet in the collection of the Iraq Museum that contains the solution to a problem in plane geometry concerning a rectangle with given area and diagonal. In the last part of the text, the solution is proved correct using the Pythagorean theorem. The steps of the solution are believed ...
The Zhoubi is most famous for its presentation of Chinese cosmology and a form of the Pythagorean theorem. It claims to present 246 problems worked out by the Duke of Zhou as well as members of his court, placing its composition during the 11th century BC.
A collection of short problems and more talk of prime numbers: 1964 Jul: Curious properties of a cycloid curve 1964 Aug: Concerning several magic tricks based on mathematical principles 1964 Sep: Puns, palindromes and other word games that partake of the mathematical spirit 1964 Oct: Simple proofs of the Pythagorean theorem, and sundry other ...
The Berlin Papyrus contains two problems, the first stated as "the area of a square of 100 is equal to that of two smaller squares. The side of one is ½ + ¼ the side of the other." [ 7 ] The interest in the question may suggest some knowledge of the Pythagorean theorem , though the papyrus only shows a straightforward solution to a single ...
The Zhoubi Suanjing contains an in-depth proof of the Gougu Theorem, a special case of the Pythagorean theorem) but focuses more on astronomical calculations. However, the recent archaeological discovery of the Tsinghua Bamboo Slips , dated c. 305 BCE , has revealed some aspects of pre-Qin mathematics, such as the first known decimal ...
Henry Perigal, Jr. FRAS MRI (1 April 1801 – 6 June 1898) was a British stockbroker and amateur mathematician, known for his dissection-based proof of the Pythagorean theorem and for his unorthodox belief that the moon does not rotate.
Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean theorem is an original proof the Pythagorean theorem discovered by James A. Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881), the 20th president of the United States. The proof appeared in print in the New-England Journal of Education (Vol. 3, No.14, April 1, 1876).
Thales of Miletus (c. 624/623 – c. 548/545 BC) is the first known individual to use deductive reasoning applied to geometry, by deriving four corollaries to Thales' theorem. [1] Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC) was credited with many mathematical and scientific discoveries, including the Pythagorean theorem, Pythagorean tuning, the five ...