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)