TY - BOOK AU - Posamentier,Alfred S. TI - The Pythagorean theorem: the story of its power and beauty SN - 9781616141813 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - QA460.P8 P67 2010 U1 - 516.22 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Amherst, N.Y. PB - Prometheus Books KW - Pythagorean theorem KW - Geometry, Plane N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-304) and index; Pythagoras and his famous Theorem -- Proving the Pythagorean Theorem without (many) words -- Applications of the Pythagorean Theorem -- Pythagorean triples and their properties -- The Pythagorean means -- Tuning the soul : Pythagoras and music -- The Pythagorean Theorem in fractal art -- About the mathematics work that led to the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry : thanks ultimately to Pythagoras / by Herbert A. Hauptman -- Pictorial depictions of Pythagoras and his famous Theorem -- Appendix A. Some selected proofs -- Appendix B. Some more proofs and solutions -- Appendix C. List of primitive Pythagorean triples -- Appendix D. List of Pythagorean triples : primitive and nonprimitive ER -