... named after its first observer, Pythagoras, but it was Euclid's insight what made it clear enough to become the basis for a great number of further mathematical discoveries. "In right-angled triangles-, the Alexandrian mathematician tells us, "the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle-. We set out on ... ...

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