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Excuse me? The Chinese had their own proof of the Pythagorean theorem a long time before Pythagoras did. You cannot accuse them of a lack of mathematical intuit
by zasz 18y ago
Excuse me? The Chinese had their own proof of the Pythagorean theorem a long time before Pythagoras did. You cannot accuse them of a lack of mathematical intuition.
http://www.visual-euclid.org/chinese/ http://www.visual-euclid.org/chinese/
- defen 18y agoI wasn't saying they were bad at/didn't have math, just that they didn't apply it to understanding the physical world.