When it came to taking credit … he had all the angles covered
Comment on this meme goes from acute to obtuse real quick
elegantgoat1@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And not a right triangle in sight. I forget, did Pythagoras develop Pythagorean theorem or the law of sines?
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, he popularized it, but the Pythagoran theorem was something ancient civilizations had already figured out.
bdkmshr@monyet.cc 11 months ago
Documenter that documented their document gets the document credited to documenter
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s really just whose discovery spread the fastest. There have been a few instances in history where parallel discoveries happened, but it got named after the guy who got it popularized fastest.
Plus, the records of the civilization that discovered it were lost for a few millenia. But it’s not the first thing that’s been rediscovered a few times.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 months ago
Unless the “documenter” wasn’t a real person.
The Pythogean Cult is very fun reading.
Vant@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m sorry about your head injury.
MxM111@kbin.social 11 months ago
Bottom right, the 3x3, 4x4 and 5x5 checker boards forms Pythagorean Triple Triangle.
elegantgoat1@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh yeah! I see, you’re right.