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Greek Geometry
Although the original roots of geometry can be traced to the Egyptians, the Greeks built on most Egyptian theories that we use today. Greek astronomy and Greek geometry were both used in order to answer many difficult questions of the time. Without geometry, the study of astronomy would have bee ....
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.... Greek geometry. Pythagoras discovered and proved many different theorems and ideas that contributed greatly to the development of geometry. Some of Pythagoras’s proven discoveries included:
- All of the angles in a triangle add up to the sum of two right angles.
- The development and use of geometrical algebra.
- The theorem of Pythagoras. a^2 + b^2 = c^2
Pythagoras also did many studies with triangles and developing or editing shapes. His most famous discovery was the Pythagorean theorem (listed above). This theorem combined the sides o ....
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