By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics.
The theorem itself, however, is central to almost every branch of science, pure or applied..
Pythagoras may have been the first to prove it, but his proof--if indeed he had one--is lost to us.
Maor shows that the theorem, although attributed to Pythagoras, was known to the Babylonians more than a thousand years earlier.
In this book, Eli Maor reveals the full story of this ubiquitous geometric theorem.
By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics