MetaFilter posts tagged with pythagoras

Fake Rapture.

univac — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:26:14 -0800

Kattullus — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:40:00 -0800

Everything you know about Pythagoras is wrong (except the bit about the beans). Less the golden-thighed Einstein of the Ancient World and more the L. Ron Hubbard of Magna Graecia. [Last link has some rude words]

Orange Goblin — Sat, 03 Jan 2004 13:51:41 -0800

Euclid's Elements - the ancient Greek mathematicians textbook, presented here with the aid of Java, including Pythagoras' Theorem, and proof that there is an infinite amount of prime numbers.

grahamwell — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 13:21:20 -0800

The shape of the universe may well be a dodecahedron. New research from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe suggests a finite universe with a definite shape. One up for Plato, who, following Pythagoras, maintained that “God used this solid for the whole universe, embroidering figures on it.”. So it appears. .. all expressed much more lucidly by the Economist.

oissubke — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 07:53:54 -0800