Question

Matching and Ordering

Answer 1

Euclid - Regarded as the father of geometry

Pythagoras - A Greek geometer who has a theorem named after

Hippocrates - A mathematician who compiled basic geometric facts, or elements into a textbook

Thales - A Greek philosopher who contributed to five theorems of elementary geometry

Answer 2

The description should be correctly matched to the individual as follows;

Euclid ↔ Regarded as the father of geometry.

Pythagoras ↔ A Greek geometer who has a theorem named after him.

Hippocrates ↔ A mathematician who compiled basic geometric facts, or elements into a textbook.

Thales ↔ A Greek philosopher who contributed to five theorems of elementary geometry.

The Pythagorean theorem states that in a right angle triangle, the square of the third side of a triangle is equal to the sum of its two (2) shorter sides.

In Mathematics and Geometry, the Pythagorean theorem is an Euclidean postulate that was developed by Pythagoras of Samos and it can be represented by the following mathematical equation:

`c^2=a^2+b^2`

Where:

• a is the opposite side of a right-angled triangle.
• b is the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle.
• c is the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle.

Euclid is regarded as the father of geometry while Hippocrates of Chios was a mathematician and Greek geometer who compiled basic geometric facts, or elements into a textbook. Thales was a Greek philosopher who contributed to five (5) theorems of elementary geometry.