Math in a Minute: the Pythagorean Theorem
490 views · Published 15 January 2016 · 1:00 · Indexed 6 November 2026
Channel: Center of Math · 2016 · Education
This Math in a Minute has Jacob proving the well-known Pythagorean Theorem in sixty seconds flat. This particular method of proof was, as mentioned, developed by James Garfield in 1876, although it's essentially the result of cutting the diagram of an earlier proof, involving a square of side c flanked by a-b-c right triangles, down the diagonal of that square.
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