我们知道,中国的勾股定理在西方被称为毕达哥拉斯定理.毕达哥拉斯公元前572年出生于爱琴海中临近小亚细亚的萨摩斯岛的一个贵族家庭.毕达哥拉斯幼年好学.青年时离开家乡,慕名拜访当时古希腊最伟大的数学家泰勒斯.此时,泰勒斯已经年迈,不再收徒.毕达哥拉斯只好拜在泰勒斯的门徒 We know that China’s Pythagorean Theorem was known in the West as the Pythagoras Theorem. Pythagorean was born in 572 BC in an aristocratic family in Samos near Asia Minor in the Aegean Sea. Pythagoras Young and eager to learn. When he left his hometown, he was attracted to Thales, the greatest Greek mathematician at the time. At this time, Thales was old and no longer accepted. Pythagoras had to worship the disciple of Thales.