Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Revisiting Philip Hugly and Charles Sayward debunking the Pythagorean Theorem: Terrence Howard

 doi.org/10.1017/S0031819199000248 

 

 Hugly, P., & Sayward, C. (1999). Did the Greeks Discover the Irrationals? Philosophy, 74(2), 169–176. doi:10.1017/

 So what we are saying is that the demonstration is about geometric figures, whereas the proof that the formula lacks a solution in the rationals if a=b is about numbers, not figures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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