Tilt
*** begin quote ***
As early as the 1st century B.C., the Chinese text Zhou Bi Suan Jing reflected the reasoning of the Pythagorean theorem, showing how to find the hypotenuse of the 3-4-5 triangle.
*** and ***
In Mathematics and the Aesthetic (2007), Nathalie Sinclair writes, “The Chinese diagram … is the same as one given by the twelfth-century Indian scholar Bhaskara, whose one-word injunction Behold! recorded his sense of awe.”
*** end quote ***
Hey, we was taught it’s the Pythagorean formula. But it seems that some Babylonians may have preceded the Greeks and Indians (from India). Maybe the Chinese found it first?
—30—
Posted by reinkefj 
Reinke Faces Life 