Who proved Pythagoras's theorem?

DOI10.1007/S00283-022-10205-XMaRDI QIDQ6169869zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Zoran Lučić

Publication date 12 July 2023

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-022-10205-x

zbMATH Keywords

geometric algebraPythagorean theoremAristotleEudoxusHippocrates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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