Question

Wheel of Theodorus is

• A. A circle with 24 sectors.
• B. A ball with hexagonal shapes
• C. composed of contiguous right angle.
• D. composed of contiguous isosceles triangle.

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

composed of contiguous right angle.

Theodorus [of Cyrene], a Greek mathematician of the fifth century BC, was a Pythagorean, a member of devoted followers of Pythagoras, and one of Plato’s teachers. Little is known about Theodorus; however, Plato gave him credit for proving that the square roots of $3,5,6,7,8,10,11,12,13,14,15,$ and $17$ are irrational. Many people have attempted to determine the technique he used. One popular conjecture involves a spiral called the Wheel of Theordorus, which is composed of contiguous right triangles.

Hence, wheel of Theodorus is composed of contiguous right angle.