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jueves, 7 de mayo de 2020

Yet Another Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem - Simpler version

In cut-the-knot.org you can find more than a hundred proofs of the Pythagorean theorem. Here I give another proof which I hope to be new.

Let \triangle{ABC} be a right-triangle with \angle{ACB}=90^\circ. Below I will be using standard notations: a, b, c, for the side length, s for the semiperimeter, \Delta for the area and r for the inradius.

s=c+r
s-\frac{c}{2}=\frac{c}{2}+r
\frac{a}{2}+\frac{b}{2}=\frac{c}{2}+r
a+b=c+2r

Squaring both sides, 

a^2+2ab+b^2=c^2+4cr+4r^2

It is well-known \Delta=rs, which implies 2ab=4r(c+r). So the equation a^2+2ab+b^2=c^2+4cr+4r^2 can be rewritten like this a^2+b^2=c^2, which is the Pythagorean theorem.

Below is the comment by John Molokach, whom I consider an expert on this topic (he has proved the theorem in more than ten different ways).



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