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16 THE THEOREM
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PYTHAGORAS |
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| DIRECTOR | |||||||||||
| AWARDS | |||||||||||
| Tom M. Apostol | |||||||||||
| Gold Apple, 1989 National Educational Film and Video Festival, Oakland; Gold Medal, 1988 International Film and TV Festival of New York | |||||||||||
| CONTRIBUTORS | |||||||||||
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Computer Animation - James F. Blinn
Associate Producer - Joe Corrigan Narrator - Al Hibbs |
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| FURTHER INFORMATION | |||||||||||
| www.projmath.caltech.edu | |||||||||||
| PRODUCER | |||||||||||
| CONTACT | |||||||||||
| Tom M. Apostol | |||||||||||
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Tom M. Apostol
Project MATHEMATICS! 305 South Hill Avenue Pasadena, CA 91106, USA Tel: +1.626.395.3759
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| SUMMARY | |||||||||||
| Several engaging animated proofs of the Pythagorean theorem are presented, with applications to real-life problems and to Pythagorean triples. The theorem is extended to 3-space, but does not hold for spherical triangles. | |||||||||||