The tablet known as Plimpton 322, dated to around 1800 BCE, contains 15 rows of numbers linked to Pythagorean triples (numbers that you could use to draw right triangles). These were not just simple ...
There’s a delightful mathematical moment in the movie Merry Andrew, when Danny Kaye, playing schoolmaster Andrew Larabee, breaks into song to teach the Pythagorean theorem. I was reminded of this ...