There’s nothing new under the sun.
Pie are squared? No. Pie are round.
You don’t have to know Pythagorean geometry to make a perfect square or rectangle.
You just have to be able to measure.
So Pythagoras really was WAY WAY “ahead of his time...”
Hillary Clinton already proved that something can be named before its namesake is known.
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ping
In before the Spinal Tap reference.
“Sum of the areas of two squares on the sides of two triangle will add up to the area of a square on hypotenuse”
I am not familiar with the “area” of the two sides and the “area” of the hypotenuse. Would that depend on how thick of a lead was in a pencil you used? The thicker the line, the greater the area?
Amazing....
yeah yeah....
Maybe its just that human brains are wired for certain proportions (as to whats pretty or acceptable) and that its a genetically based preference for “normality” in mates (Socio-Biology 101) A similar study would probably find that such ‘ratios’ are found in what humans consider as ‘beauty’.
Talk about a clumsy definition?
Pythagoras’ discovery that the sum of the areas of two squares on the sides of two triangle will add up to the area of a square on hypotenuseiscovery that the sum of the areas of two squares on the sides of two triangle will add up to the area of a square on hypotenuse...”
My tenth grade teacher:
Pythagoras’ theorem states that the square of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
Utter nonsense. The article shows no proof except the happenstance mapping between distant sites of vastly unequal significance.
“Stonehenge builders used Pythagoras’ theorem 2,000 years before Greek philosopher was born, say experts”
“...and we used Pythagoras’ Theorem, even though we haven’t got a bloody clue who that wanker is...yet.”
C’mon, guys, get with it. Stories like this beg for sarcasm and parody.
How does a megalith expert make a living?
“Stonehenge builders used Pythagoras’ theorem 2,000 years before Greek philosopher was born, experts”
WOW! So from this, using my superior intellect, we can deduce that the Stonehenge builders must have developed the first time machine...traveled to the future...and stolen Pythagoras’s theorem! Shame on them.
How did they know its correct name? ;-D
Are these researchers saying they know the original location of each stone and that’s the basis of their calculations? I’m just asking because the restoration of Stonehenge began in about 1901 and various stones have been moved during the process, along with the height and orientation of the stones changing.
That’s one way of getting out of paying royalties!
The Pythagorean theory was known in special cases long before Pythagoras. He (or his followers attributing it to him) was known for giving the mathematical proof of it in all cases.
To me, the author seems to be confusing an observation and a theorem. A theorem has to be proven, and that is what Pythagoras did.
If I discovered that if I took the diameter of a circle, multiplied by a value that's a tad over 3, I get a value close to the circumference, that doesn't mean I've proven how to calculate pi or even know what pi is -- all it proves is that I'm good at figuring things out.
Yes, observing can be the genesis of starting out the basis of a theorem, but an observation is not a theorem.
