English

Proper noun

Pythagoras

1. An Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
2. (mathematics, colloquial) Pythagoras' theorem.
   • Serge Lang and Gene Murrow (1988) Geometry, ISBN 0387966544, page 203: “By Pythagoras, we find the length of the third side, |AB|² = (2a)² – a² = 4a² – a² = 3a²”
3. A male given name of mostly historical use, and a transliteration from modern Greek.

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See also

• Archimedes
• Aristotle
• Plato
• Socrates

Czech

Proper noun

Pythagoras m

1. Pythagoras

Swedish

Proper noun

Pythagoras

1. Pythagoras

Related terms

• Pythagoras sats
• pythagoreisk