We live in a three-dimensional world, where the familiar directions of left-right, backward-forward, and up-down dictate everything that we see and experience. Three's not enough for mathematicians though, as they can explore worlds of four, five, or even a million dimensions.
A self-taught genius from India and one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. He believed mathematical ideas were visions from God, giving him a unique style of maths that helped solve problems Western mathematicians couldn’t.
Pythagoras was an ancient Greek philosopher who discovered the mathematical structure behind music during the 6th century BC. He also came up with the famous theorem for the sides of a right-angled triangle: a² + b² = c².
You may wonder what connects the maths you do in school to the real world. Will you ever have to solve an equation or find an angle outside your classroom? Maths is very useful and is everywhere in everyday life.
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