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PYTHAGORAS THEOREM IN
BABYLONIAN MATHEMATICS
ARITHMETIC AND GEOMETRY
PYTHAGOREAN TRIPLES
RATIONAL POINTS
ON CIRCLE OF
CONSTRUCTION
BIOGRAPHYCAL NOTES:
PYTHAGORAS
WHAT IS PYTHAGOREAN
THEOREM
THE USE OF THEOREM
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Bhiographical Notes :
Pythagoras
Born on island Samos
Learned mathematics from
Thales (624 - 547 BCE) (Miletus)
Croton (around 540 BCE)
Founded a school
(Pythagoreans)
“All is number”
strict code of conduct
(secrecy, vegetarianism,
taboo on eating beans etc.)
explanation of musical
harmony in terms of whole-
Pythagoras number ratios
(580 BCE – 497 BCE)
• Pythagoras was a Greek mathematician and
philosopher.
• He was born on the island of Samos off the Greek
coast.(582 BC - 496 BC).
• At a very early age he travelled to Mesopotamia
and Egypt where he undertook his basic studies
and eventually founded his first school.
• He was known best for the Pythagorean Theorem
.
• He is also called "the father of numbers" .
• Pythagoras believed that mathematics could
exist without music or astronomy but
mathematical principles were universal and
implicit in all things; thus nothing could exist
without numbers.
• His teachings encompassed not only the
investigation into the self but into the whole of
the known universe of his time.
• Pythagoras is widely regarded as the founder of
modern mathematics, musical theory, philosophy
and the science of health (hygiene).
What is the Pythagorean
Theorem?
We have a page that talks all about the
Pythagorean Theorem, but here is a quick summary:
The Pythagorean Theorem states
that, in a right triangle, the
square of a (a²) plus the square
c2
c of b (b²) is equal to the square of
a a
2
c (c²):
a2 + btriangle
In a right angled 2
= c2 the
bb2 square of the long side (the
"hypotenuse") is equal to the
sum of the squares of the other
two sides. It is stated in this
formula:
+ = a2 + b 2 = c 2
Formal Definition…
Years ago, a man named Pythagoras found an amazing fact
about triangles:
If the triangle had a right angle (90°) ...
... and you made a square on each of the three sides, then ...
... the biggest square had the exact same area as the other
two squares put together!
The longest side of the triangle is called the "hypotenuse", so
the formal definition is:
In a right angled triangle the square of the
hypotenuse c is equal to the sum of the squares of the
a other So,two
the sides.
square of a (a²) plus the
square of b (b²) is equal to the
b square of c (c²):
a2 + b 2 = c 2
The of
If we know the lengths Use
twoof Theorem…
sides of a right angled triangle,
then Pythagoras' Theorem allows us to find the length of the
third side. (But remember it only works on right angled
triangles!)
a 2 + b 2 = c2 a2 + b 2 = c 2
52 + 122 = c2 92 + b2 = 152
25 + 144 = 81 + b2 = 225
169 Take 81 from
c2 = 169 both sides
c = √169 b2 = 144
c = 13 b = √144
b = 12
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HISTORY OF BABYLONIAN
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In this article we examine four Babylonian tablets which all
have some connection with Pythagoras's theorem. Certainly
the BabyloniansHistory of Babylonian…
were familiar with Pythagoras's theorem. A
translation of a Babylonian tablet which is preserved in the
British museum goes as follows:-
4 is the length and 5 the diagonal. What is the
breadth ?
Its size is not known.
4 times 4 is 16.
5 times 5 is 25.
You take 16 from 25 and there remains 9.
What times what shall I take in order to get 9 ?
3 times 3 is 9.
3 is the breadth.
All the tablets we wish to consider in detail come from
roughly the same period, namely that of the Old Babylonian
Empire which flourished in Mesopotamia between 1900 BC
and 1600 BC.
Pythagoras Theorem in
Babylonian
Plimpton 322 is
the tablet
numbered 322
in the collection of
G A Plimpton
housed in
Columbia
University
Its date is not known accurately but it is put as
between 1800 BC and 1650 BC. It is thought to
be only part of a larger tablet, the remainder of
which has been destroyed.
• The Susa tablet was
discovered at the present
town of Shush in theSusa
The Tablet
Khuzistan region of Iran.
The town is about 350 km
from the ancient city of
Babylon.
CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE
PYTHAGOREAN
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Arithmetic and Geometry...
The Theorem of Pythagoras
If c is the hypotenuse of a right-angled
triangle
and a, b area2two other
+b2=c 2 sides then
“Let no one unversed in geometry enter here”
s written over the door of Plato’s Academy (≈ 387 B
c2
c
a2 a
b
b2
Converse Statement...
• If a,b and c satisfy a2+b2=c2 then there exists a
right-angled triangle with corresponding sides.
• One can consider a2+b2=c2 as an equation
• It has some simple solutions: (3,4,5), (5,12,13)
etc.
• Practical use - construction of right angles
• Deep relationship between arithmetic and
geometry
• Discovery of irrational numbers
Contributions by the Pythagorean is
include :-
2. Various theorems about
Contributions by the
triangles, parallel lines, polygons,
Pythagorean
circles, spheres and regular
polyhedra.
3. Work on a class of problems in
the applications of areas. (e.g. to
construct a polygon of given area
and similar to another polygon.
The Pythagoreans had four branches
of Number:
VISUAL PROOF
5. Arithmetic consisted of solely OF THE
Number, PYTHAGOREAN
THEOREM FOR
6. Geometry was Number combined THE (3, 4, 5)
with space, TRIANGLE AS IN
THE CHOU PEI
7. Music was Number in time, and SUAN CHING
8. Astronomy was the mixture of 500–200 BC.
Number, space, and time.
Starting at Unity (one), the
Pythagoreans liked to Tetraktys proceeds through
express numbers as the ordered numbers two,
geometrical figures; thethree, and four, which add up
foremost of these is the to a second Unity, ten. These
Tetraktys four numbers also correspond
to the ideas of a point, line,
plane, and three-dimensional
surface
Pythagorean number theory
make abundantly clear how
the early Greeks achieved
the insights necessary to
develop geometry. They
devised a new number
system which expressed
numbers in a highly visual
and physical form, through
the arrangement
of dots.
1. The figulate
numbers were
found by the
Pythagorean.
2. These numbers,
considered as the
number of dots in
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DEFINITION
GENERAL FORMULA
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• Pythagorean
Definition Integer Triples
triples (a,b,c) satisfying a2+b2=c2
are called Pythagorean triples
• Examples: (3,4,5), (5,12,13), (8,15,17) etc.
• Pythagoras: around 500 BCE
• Babylonia 1800 BCE: clay tablet
“Plimpton 322” lists integer pairs (a,c) such that
there is an integer b satisfying a2+b2=c2
• China (200 BCE -220 CE), India (500-200 BCE)
• Greeks: between Euclid (300 BCE) and Diophantus
(250 CE)
• Diophantine equation (after Diophantus, 300 CE)
- polynomial equation with integer coefficients to
which integer solutions are sought
• It was shown that there is no algorithm for
deciding which polynomial equations have integer
solutions.
General Formula…
•Theorem Any Pythagorean triple can be obtained
as follows:
a = (p2-q2)r, b = 2qpr, c = (p2+q2)r
where p, q and r are arbitrary integers.
•Special case:
a = p2-q2, b = 2qp, c = p2+q2
CONSTRUCTION ON CIRCLE
• Rational Point
Pythagorean On(a,b,c)
triple Circle
• Triangle with rational sides
x = a/c, y = b/c and hypotenuse c = 1
• x2 + y2 = 1 → P (x,y) is a rational point on the unit
circle.
Y
1
y
X
O x
Construction Of The Rational Point
• On Circle
Base point (trivial solution) Q(x,y) = (-1,0)
• Line through Q with rational slope t
y = t(x+1)
intersects the circle at a second rational point R
• Y
As t varies we obtain all rational points on the circle
which have the form
R
x = (1-t2) / (1+t2), y = 2t / (1+t2)
where t = p/q
Q X
-1 O 1