In 580 B.C. there lived a man who is know for creating one the best known theorems ever. His name was Pythagoras and the theorem, the Pythagorean Theorem. This Theorem states that the sum of the squares of the two legs of a right triangle equals the hypotenuse squared. This theorem as you can see can be very useful for finding the lengths of a right triangle. Now over the last two millennium there have …showed first 75 words of 255 total…

…showed last 75 words of 255 total…own proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. Garfield was very skilled man. Born in a log cabin in 1831. Garfield made a trapezoid with three right triangles. And by finding the area of the trapezoid with the equation A =[ h (b¹ + b² )] / 2. These's are just two of the hundreds the proofs out there. There are many more. REFERENCES History of Math, copyright 1996, by Key Curriculum Press p 143. The World Book Encyclopedia, copyright 1988, USA by World Book, Inc.