Had Garfield lived to age 181, he would surely have been glad to know that 181 is part of two different Pythagorean triples, sets of integers that satisfy the equation a 2+b 2=c 2 and therefore make up the side lengths of a right triangle. It is unlikely that Garfield ever saw the proof from this text, as it was not translated into English until 1996, but it is possible that the same proof appeared in another text that he did know. Garfield's trapezoid is equivalent to this diagram cut along a diagonal of the tilted, thick-edged square. Originality is sometimes in the eye of the beholder: Garfield's exact argument does not appear anywhere else prior to the 1876 journal article, but it is extremely similar to a proof from the classical Chinese astronomy and mathematics text Zhou Bing Suan Jing, which was probably compiled during the first century BCE.
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(For full details and some more proofs of the Pythagorean theorem, check out the Wolfram MathWorld page on the Pythagorean theorem.) Because the area is the same no matter how we dissect the trapezoid, we end up with equations relating the side lengths of the smaller right triangles. The proof relies on finding the area of the trapezoid in two different ways: by using the area formula for the trapezoid and by adding up the areas of the three triangles. Its non-hypotenuse sides are the hypotenuses of the smaller triangles. In this trapezoid, the two smaller right triangles are congruent to each other, and the large triangle is an isosceles right triangle. This helpful diagram illustrates Garfield's proof. In this case, however, it is clear that the pons asinorum is the Pythagorean theorem. The proof of this theorem was sometimes considered the first challenging problem in the Euclid's classical geometry text. Oddly, pons asinorum (Latin for "bridge of asses") was usually used to refer to the isosceles triangle theorem in Euclid's Elements, which holds that in an isosceles triangle (a triangle with two sides of the same length), the angles opposite the congruent sides are themselves congruent.
We do not remember to have seen it before, and we think it something on which the members of both houses can unite without distinction of party." Garfield, Member of Congress from Ohio, we were shown the following demonstration of the pons asinorum, which he had hit upon in some mathematical amusements and discussions with other M. The article, which only takes the bottom third of one column, begins, "In a personal interview with Gen. Later that year, the proof was published in the New-England Journal of Education (now known simply as the Journal of Education). In a Madiary entry, Garfield, then a congressman from Ohio, mentioned showing a new proof to a mathematics professor at Dartmouth University. As with many true things, there are multiple ways to prove this theorem. The square of the hypotenuse, the longest side, is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides, or more familiarly, a 2+b 2=c 2. The Pythagorean theorem describes the relationship between the side lengths of a right triangle. It is not clear how he became involved with one of the most famous theorems in geometry.
Garfield was an intelligent man who studied some math in college, but contemporary documents tend to highlight his skills and interests in preaching, debate and English rather than mathematics. Had an unstable, delusional stalker's bullets and nineteenth-century medical "care" not cut short his life just six months into his presidency, he would be 181 today (more on that later). James Abram Garfield was born on this day, November 19, in 1831.
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