ZerushtoScience@lemmy.ml·5 months agocross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldPythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras(www.iflscience.com)external-linkarrow-up1695arrow-down14message-square85fedilink
arrow-up1691arrow-down1external-linkPythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras(www.iflscience.com)ZerushtoScience@lemmy.ml·5 months agocross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldmessage-square85fedilink
minus-squareWogiarrow-up18arrow-down0·5 months agolinkfedilinkA handful of people can be credited with discovering the theorem prior to Pythagoras, this isn’t the first time this has come up, and incidentally there is almost no evidence to suggest Pythagoras did.
minus-squarebillgamesharrow-up3arrow-down0·5 months agolinkfedilinkGood to know! TBH, I’m specifically excited to see it was present in the fertile crescent. I really like clay tablets.
minus-squareMonkderDrittearrow-up1arrow-down0·5 months agolinkfedilinkQuite possible. Ancient Greeks really liked Akkadians.
minus-squarebillgamesharrow-up1arrow-down0·5 months agolinkfedilink Quite possible. I’m not sure I understand this statement? Isn’t that what the article says?
A handful of people can be credited with discovering the theorem prior to Pythagoras, this isn’t the first time this has come up, and incidentally there is almost no evidence to suggest Pythagoras did.
Good to know! TBH, I’m specifically excited to see it was present in the fertile crescent. I really like clay tablets.
Quite possible. Ancient Greeks really liked Akkadians.
I’m not sure I understand this statement? Isn’t that what the article says?
Oh, right.