Myth, Magic and Mathematics
by Floris Books • 30 May 2018 • Steiner-Waldorf Education • 0 Comments
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Using only three simple tools – String, Straight-edge and Shadow – humans revealed the basic principles and constructions of elementary geometry. In this fascinating extract, Julia E. Diggins imagines how Pythagoras might have taught his famous theorem: Listen to our baffling problem. Here is the Egyptian right triangle, the one used by the rope-stretchers,...
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