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How Pythagoras turned math into a tool for understanding reality

If you’ve ever heard the phrase “the music of the spheres,” your first thought probably wasn’t about mathematics. But in its historical origin, the music of the spheres actually was all about math. In ...
Los Angeles Times

The wonder of proof

ROBERT P. CREASE is a professor in the philosophy department at Stony Brook University, a historian at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and a columnist for Physics World. This is adapted from an ...
IFLScience

The Pythagorean Theorem Predates Pythagoras By 1,000 Years: "The Proof Is Carved Into Clay"

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
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Stonehenge Builders Used Pythagoras' Theorem Way Before The Philosopher’s Birth: Giants, Aliens, Other Theories On Its Origin

Experts, who are studying the formation of Britain's Stonehenge, claimed that those who built it had knowledge of Pythagoras' theorem even 2,000 years before he was born. The newly published Megalith ...
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The Pythagorean Theorem Is Actually 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...