It is Fathers’ Day here in Australia. Pythagoras is regarded by mathematician and “The Father of Numbers.” This morning I also came across these number facts about Fathers’ Day: “Every year on the third Sunday in June, we celebrate Dad with his own day. The idea sprang from the mind of one woman who thought […]
The Rule of Pythagoras for right-angled triangles is a core part of most Junior High School Maths courses. It states that the area on the longest side (the hypotenuse) is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides: Pythagoras didn’t use algebra to express this theorem, of course. Algebra wasn’t developed […]
Explore the elevations of a particular path through the Elevation Profile in Google Earth. To start, either draw a path or open an existing one. Once you’ve chosen a path from the Places panel, there are two ways to see its Elevation profile. Either go to Edit > Show Elevation Profile, or right-click on your path from the Places panel […]
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Yes, an astonishing discovery by our dear blogger – Pythagoras, in profile, has a head shaped like a….wait for it….tension mounts … like a ….A RIGHT-ANGLED TRIANGLE! Here is the proof (pun intended);
A question which caught my attention recently was, “Would Jesus Christ (the carpenter from Galilee) have used the 3,4,5 Triangle property from the Pythagoras theorem for right-angled triangles?” Most carpenters and home handymen use this regularly to square walls, etc. What do you think?
Yes, here is the follow up to the earlier post. Mr Vaughan Jones is an old boy of the school (Auckland Grammar School) in Auckland that I taught at for many years. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1990 for his amazing work on the Mathematics of Knots. Mr Jones also famously wore a New […]
