What is the name of the mathematician who discovered the Pythagorean theorem?

Answer 1

The Pythagorean Theorem was discovered in the year 530 BC by a Greek man named Pythagoras.But history of mathematics says that it was found by Indian mathematicians and Pythagoras was the first to give proof for the same

Answer 2

It was never invented and discovery of the features of a right angle triangle is attributed to the ancient mathematician Pythagoras who found that in a right angle triangle its hypotenuse square is equal to the sum of its sides squared and is normally notated as:-

a2+b2 = c2 whereas a and b are the sides with c being the hypotenuse

Answer 3

One view:

Pythagoras was a Greek Scientist, so it originated in Ancient Greece.

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Another view:

Pythagoras is deservedly well-known as a philosopher, mathematician and founder of Pythagoreanism (see link). The theorem about the squares of the sides of a right triangle is named for him, but he did not originate it.

One story, probably apocryphal, is that ancient Egyptians used a 3-4-5 right triangle to re-survey their fields after the annual Nile flood. They tied 12 equally spaced knots in a rope, and arranged them around stakes until they formed a triangle with a knot at each corner and 2, 3, and 4 knots on each side.

Certainly, in about 1750 BCE (1200 years before Pythagoras), Babylonians wrote long lists of Pythagorean triples on clay tablets (see second link). This showed they understood the theorem, but they didn't prove it. The Greeks were the first to do that, and Euclid collected these proofs in his Elements.

Answer 4

his name was Pythagoras he was an ancient greek mathematician :)