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• On the past of a famous theorem: the predecessors of a theorem of Pythagoras

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  Lajos Klukovits

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  The well-known Theorem of Pythagoras asserts a relation among the sides of any right-angled triangle. It can be found any secondary school textbook. An interesting question whether this result due to the Pythagoreans from the VIth century BC, or it was known in earlier civilizations. The first answer is a vague yes. According to the legends the Egyptian rope-stretchers used a triangle with sides 3,4,5 units to create right angle. But are there real evidences that this result was known earlier? We will argue that in almost all river-valley civilizations it was known and used.

• Zur Visualisierung des Satzes von Pythagoras

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  Oswald Giering

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  In this article we make a study of a not-classical visualization of the theorem of Pythagoras using methods of elementary school geometry. We find collinear points, copoint straight lines and congruent pairs of parallelograms. The configuration of their midpoints induces a six-midpoint and a four-midpoint theorem.