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Java applets (mainly proofs)

Flash movies animated proofs - University of Sheffield

Interactive Pythagoras' Theorem - MathsNet
proofs, problems and other material

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Manipulate shapes in this interactive proof.

38 proofs - Cut The Knot

Proposition 47, Euclid's Elements Book 1 - David Joyce

Pythagoras' theorem - Mathworld
proofs and background

biography of Pythagoras - MacTutor History Archive

Pythagoras of Samos - Mathgym
collection of essays on the influence of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans on Western civilisation

practice at calculating sides in a right angled triangle

shortest distance problems

generate Pythagorean triples list of Pythagorean triples - Peter Alfred

patterns in Pythagorean triples

de Gua's theorem (generalisation of Pythagoras' theorem to 3 dimensions) - Mathworld
The square of the area of the base (i.e., the face opposite the right trihedral angle) of a trirectangular tetrahedron is equal to the sum of the squares of the areas of its other three faces.

Pythagorean triples and the congruent number problem - University of Sheffield
An integer is a congruent number if it is the area of a right-angled triangle with sides that are rational numbers. The smallest congruent number is 5, the area of the right-angled triangle with sides 3/2, 20/3 and 41/6.

Power Page - Steven Dutch
Pythagorean triples and other things about sums of powers