... prove it. Pythagoras then generalised it to all right-angled triangles hence it is Pythagoras' theorem. Pythagoras was born on the island of Samos in around 582 B.C and died in around 500 BC He was a Greek philosopher and mathematician. He had been instructed in the teachings of the early Ionian philosophers Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes. It is believed that Pythagoras was driven out of Samos in 532 BC by Polycrates, the tyrant who ruled there. He moved to a Greek colony in southern Italy named Crotona where he set up a religious and philosophical school. A movement known as Pythagoreanism. Little is really known about Pythagoras' actual wok. His school practiced in secrecy thus making it difficult to distinguish between his work and that of his followers. Whether someone from the school or Pythagoras himself found the proof can't truly known. Hence the philosophy of Pythagoras is known through the work ...

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