If you’ve ever heard the phrase “the music of the spheres,” your first thought probably wasn’t about mathematics. But in its historical origin, the music of the spheres actually was all about math. In ...

The textbook titled 'Ganita Prakash' notes that ancient Indian mathematician Baudhayana, believed to have lived around the 8th-7th century BCE, was the first person in history to state this theorem, ...

NCERT’s new Class 8 maths book now calls it the Baudhayana–Pythagoras Theorem, crediting ancient Indian scholar Baudhayana. The textbook blends history, daily-life examples and Indian heritage to ...

Use Pythagoras’ theorem to show a triangle is right-angled or to find one side of a right-angled triangle when two sides are known. Make sure you are confident at substituting into and manipulating ...

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