For generations, Indian students have learnt it simply as the Pythagoras Theorem. In a quiet but significant shift, the Class 8 NCERT mathematics textbook has now introduced it as the ...

a 2 + b 2 = c 2. Remember that from high school math class? That's the Pythagorean theorem, which shows that in a right triangle, where the shorter legs are a and b, the sum of their squares is equal ...

PRESENTER:Pythagoras' theorem sounds a bit complicated, so what is it in a nutshell? PRESENTER:Well, it's actually pretty simple really. PRESENTER:When we have a right-angled triangle and we know the ...