Fourth+Period

= Hi. My name is Ms. Fouch and I'm awesomely awesome:)!! = =[|My Cool Websites]= =chase...= =He was well educated, learning to read and play the lyre. It is said that while in Tyre, he studied with the Chaldaeans and the learned men of Syria. At home, he was influenced by his teacher, the philosopher, Pherekydes. Another apocryphal tale has him visiting Miletus in his late teenage years to study with Thales. By this time, Thales was a very old man, who probably did not teach Pythagoras a lot, but may have greatly influenced him. Thales's student, Anaximander was giving lectures on Miletus and quite possibly, Pythagoras attended these lectures. Anaximander had great interest in geometry and cosmology, subjects which would strongly influence Pythagoras's own views._ tray shiflet= =Pythagoras, the son of Mnesarchus and Pythais, was born on the island of Samos, off the coast of Asia Minor (what is now mostly Turkey), about 569 BC. Pythais was a native of Samos. Mnesarchus was a merchant from Tyre. An apocryphal story says that he brought grain to Samos during a famine and was granted citizenship of Samos out of gratitude. _tray shiflet= =Pythagoras probably had at least two brothers, perhaps three. Little is known about his childhood. He apparently grew up on Samos, but traveled with his father. It has been said he and his father returned to Tyre on at least one occasion and also traveled to Italy._tray shiflet=

a2 + b2 = c2
 * It is called "Pythagoras' Theorem" and can be written in one short equation:

Note: Parker....The famous Greek philosopher mathematician Pythagoras was born circa 570 B.C. on Samos an island lying off the western coast of Asia Minor. Samos was at this time one of the colonies that had been developed by the city states of ancient Greece centred upon Asia Minor and the islands lying off its coasts. Such colonisation had been encouraged moreso by population pressures and political turmoils in ancient Greece rather than by the prospect of trading opportunities A visual proof of the Pythagorean theorem =kheland...Since the fourth century AD, Pythagoras has commonly been given credit for discovering the [|Pythagorean theorem], a theorem in geometry that states that in a right-angled triangle the square of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle), //c//, is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, //b// and //a//—that is, //a//2 + //b//2  = //c//2.=
 * **c** is the **longest side** of the triangle
 * **a** and **b** are the other two sides ||