The Pythagorean theorem : a 4,000-year history
The author presents a complex history of the Pythagorean Theorem, examining the earliest evidence of knowledge of the theorem to Einstein's theory of relativity
Print Book, English, ©2007
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2007
History
xvi, 259 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, music ; 25 cm
9780691125268, 9780691148236, 0691125260, 0691148236
71146640
Cambridge, England, 1993
Mesopotamia, 1800 BCE
Sidebar 1. Did the Egyptians know it?
Pythagoras
Euclid's Elements
Sidebar 2. The Pythagorean theorem in art, poetry, and prose
Archimedes
Translators and commentators, 500-1500 CE
François Viète makes history
From the infinite to the infinitesimal
Sidebar 3. A remarkable formula by Euler
371 proofs, and then some
Sidebar 4. The folding bag
Sidebar 5. Einstein meets Pythagoras
Sidebar 6. A most unusual proof
A theme and variations
Sidebar 7. A Pythagorean curiosity
Sidebar 8. A case of overuse
Strange coordinates
Notation, notation, notation
From flat space to curved spacetime
Sidebar 9. A case of misuse
Prelude to relativity
From Bern to Berlin, 1905-1915
Sidebar 10. Four Pythagorean brainteasers
But is it universal?
Afterthoughts
Samos, 2005
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