Some of you know Pythagoras as the guy who correctly came up with the ratio of the sides of a right triangle. Now it’s time you know him as a murderous cult leader. Maybe. The dry, yet powerful ...

The tablet, likely used for teaching, dates to the Old Babylonian period between 1900-1600 BCE – centuries before Pythagoras ...

And the first of those Greeks to seriously put math to use for that purpose was the mysterious religious cult leader Pythagoras of Samos. It was Pythagoras who turned math from a mere tool for ...

What began as a bonus question in a high school math contest has resulted in a staggering 10 new ways to prove the ancient ...

An ancient Greek belief about the most pleasing combinations of musical notes – often attributed to the philosopher Pythagoras – doesn’t actually reflect the way people around the world ...

Vegetarians used to be called Pythagoreans in an ode to the famed Greek mathematician, Pythagoras. Known for his Pythagorean theorem, Pythagoras was once considered the "father" of vegetarianism.

A new book titled Megalith: Studies in Stone, argues that the same geometric principles that framed Pythagoras’ famous work can be found at the prehistoric site. The book’s publication coincid ...

An understanding of how to use Pythagoras’ theorem to find missing sides in a right-angled triangle is essential for applying the theorem in different contexts. (3,1) is the coordinate that is 3 ...

But a modern-day mathematician uncovered an ancient Babylonian tablet with the concept that pre-date Pythagoras's birth by more than 1,000 years. The evidence was translated from a clay tablet ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. It is useful to think of Pythagoras’ theorem as \(a\)² + \(b\)² = \(c\)². The hypotenuse is labelled as \(c ...

Study math for long enough and you will likely have cursed Pythagoras's name, or said "praise be to Pythagoras" if you're a bit of a fan of triangles. Another tablet from around 1800–1600 BCE ...