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7.1 APPLY THE PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM
PYTHAGORAS • 569-475 BC in Greece
• Mysterious Figure (code of
secrecy)
• Religious and Scientific
“The Pythagorean…having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers… and that the whole cosmos is a scale
and a number” -Aristotle
**ONLY TRUE FOR RIGHT TRIANGLES!!!
PYTHAGOREAN TRIPLETS
Set of three positive integers that satisfy the Pythagorean theorem
HWK P. 436 (3-29, ODD)
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