Directory of Pythagoras Resources

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This category lists pages and sites about the live and discoveries of the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras (582?-500? B.C.), who contended that most things could be understood through math.

Resources in This Category

• Pythagoras of Samos

  http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html
  Detailed biography, including pictures, from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.

• The Proof: Pythagorean Puzzle

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/puzzle/
  A fun look at the man and one of his best-known equations. Includes Shockwave demonstration. From Nova Online.

• The Theorem of Pythagoras

  http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Spyth.htm
  Brief description and proof of the Pythagorean theorem.

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