The Pythagorean Theorem: What Is It About?

DOI10.2307/27641894MaRDI QIDQ5440574zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexander Givental

Publication date 5 February 2008

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/27641894

zbMATH Keywords

conformal isometrycurvatureDedekind cutPythagoras' theoremRiemannian metricsimilar

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of geometry (51-03) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

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