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$Who Actually Discovered The Pythagorean Theorem? The Real History Everyone Should Learn How did ancients discover the famous formula a² + b² = c² ? This video is a re-post based on feedback. I removed all AI (AI thumbnail and 3 AI images which were 20 sec of screen time out of the 18 min 36 secs video) https://youtu.be/4VpphQsRzS4 0:00 Intro 1:50 China 5:00 India 7:35 Garfield 8:45 Pythagoras 9:24 Euclid 15:18 Einstein Support monthly YouTube members https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnj59g7jezwTy5GeL8EA_g/join Patreon https://www.patreon.com/mindyourdecisions One time donation Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/mindyourdecisions PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=REZRY3QRQPYQA Community https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxGSwX5dtLg6zWkm-rNohQdcgDduhp5Gi2 Babylon, Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plimpton_322.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Papyrus_Berlin_6619.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All_Gizah_Pyramids.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corda-a-12-nodi.svg Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons China (Gougu) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuan_tu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhoubi_Suanjing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Duke_of_Zhou.png https://www.rediff.com/news/special/did-india-discover-pythogoras-theorem-a-top-mathematician-answers/20150109.htm India (Baudhayan) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudhayana#/media/File:Bas-relief_of_Baudhayana_(cropped).jpg https://archive.org/details/baudhyanasrautas01bauduoft/page/n5/mode/2up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yajna Arayilpdas at Malayalam Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons https://w.wiki/S$M5 https://x.com/ncert/status/2006602652638130291 https://ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/hegp202.pdf https://bhaskarkamble.substack.com/p/the-sulbasutras-and-the-pythagoras Greece (Pythagoras) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pythagoras_knapp.jpg https://archive.org/details/cu31924008704219/page/n165/mode/2up Greece (Euclid) https://mathcs.holycross.edu/~little/Mont201516/EuclidPythagoras1.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tysoe_Windmill geograph.org.uk 7335000.jpg Tysoe Windmill by Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Common https://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/euclid.shtml https://webspace.ship.edu/mrcohe/inside-out/vu1/d_joyce/elements/bookVI/propVI31.html http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/elements/bookVI/propVI31.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Visual_proof_of_the_Pythagorean_theorem_by_area-preserving_shearing.gif https://www.desmos.com/calculator/zlf3dweki4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWNBw5GpqeY&t=611s Einstein https://archive.org/details/fractalschaospow0000unse/page/2/mode/2up https://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/PythagorasBySimilarity.shtml https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/pythagoras-theorem/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Einstein_1921_by_F_Schmutzer.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Einstein_as_a_child.jpg https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/einsteins-first-proof-pythagorean-theorem Impossible proof https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/00029890.2024.2370240?needAccess=true https://maa.org/news/groundbreaking-pythagorean-research-featured-in-the-american-mathematical-monthly/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juFdo2bijic Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/MindYourDecisions?sub_confirmation=1 If you purchase through these links, I may be compensated for purchases made on Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. This does not affect the price you pay. Book ratings as of January 2025. My Books (worldwide links) https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/my-books/#worldwide My Books (US links) Mind Your Decisions: Five Book Compilation https://amzn.to/2pbJ4wR A collection of 5 books: The Joy of Game Theory rated 4.2/5 stars on 564 reviews http://amzn.to/1uQvA20 The Irrationality Illusion: How To Make Smart Decisions And Overcome Bias rated 4.2/5 stars on 55 reviews http://amzn.to/1o3FaAg 40 Paradoxes in Logic, Probability, and Game Theory rated 4.2/5 stars on 81 reviews http://amzn.to/1LOCI4U The Best Mental Math Tricks rated 4.3/5 stars on 148 reviews http://amzn.to/18maAdo Multiply Numbers By Drawing Lines rated 4.5/5 stars on 57 reviews http://amzn.to/XRm7M4 Mind Your Puzzles: Collection Of Volumes 1 To 3 https://amzn.to/2mMdrJr A collection of 3 books: Math Puzzles Volume 1 rated 4.4/5 stars on 138 reviews http://amzn.to/1GhUUSH Math Puzzles Volume 2 rated 4.2/5 stars on 45 reviews http://amzn.to/1NKbyCs Math Puzzles Volume 3 rated 4.3/5 stars on 38 reviews http://amzn.to/1NKbGlp 2017 Shorty Awards Nominee STEM category My Blog https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/ Twitter https://twitter.com/preshtalwalkar Instagram https://www.instagram.com/preshtalwalkar/ Merch https://teespring.com/stores/mind-your-decisions Patreon https://www.patreon.com/mindyourdecisions Press https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/press$

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