Legend holds that Hippias, the disciple of this re
Legend holds that Hippias, the disciple of this relation's eponymous formulator, was drowned because he used it to prove that the square root of 2 was irrational. Zeno of Elea used it to derive Hinge Theorem, while (*) Euclid derived from it the distance formula. FTP, name this theorem, which asserts that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of its two legs.
Legend holds that Hippias, the disciple of this relation's eponymous formulator, was drowned because he used it to prove that the square root of 2 was irrational.
{Pythagorean} Theorem