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Two Visualizing Proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem

Authors: Bang Sun

The Pythagorean theorem is one of the most proved theorem of all time, most of the proofs use manipulation of areas to prove that the square of the hypotenuse is indeed the sum of the squares of the two legs. I often felt disconnected with the proofs, it was one of the situations where one could prove something, but could not quite see why. So here I present two dynamical and visualizing methods for proving the Pythagorean theorem.

Comments: 15 pages, written in English, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 license

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[v1] 2023-05-05 20:02:25

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