>I'm positive it wasn't Pythagoras. Please argue against my actual statements instead of a strawman. How am I positive it wasn't Pythagoras I was talking about

>I'm positive it wasn't Pythagoras. Please argue against my actual statements instead of a strawman. How am I positive it wasn't Pythagoras I was talking about the Greeks not Pythagoras. If previous Greeks discovered the theory and it was named after Pythagoras it would still mean that white people discovered it which is what the whole article is about. Can you provide proof that the Egyptians or Babylonians had the entire theory? I asked in my previous comment but you didn't provide any. In the wiki article it says they had awareness of Pythagorean Triples but doesn't state they had the full theorem. The wiki says the theorem is actually 4 parts "The history of the theorem can be divided into four parts: knowledge of Pythagorean triples, knowledge of the relationship among the sides of a right triangle, knowledge of the relationships among adjacent angles, and proofs of the theorem within some deductive system." [1] I think the problem is the last point which is possibly the missing part for the Egyptians and Babylonians. Do you have any proof that they had the last point? I never made the claim Pythagoras discovered it. I even stated Greeks multiple times when referring to the discovery not Pythagoras. I even said "If the Greeks discovered it and Pythagoras popularised it then the name would be fitting." We literally have no idea who discovered it. The Greeks spread it to the West where we named it after Pythagoras. We know the Greeks had fully developed it. >I don't. Nor have I claimed to. You said "it dates back to the Egyptians or Babylonians, and it was written of in a fairly extensive manner in India hundreds of years before Pythagoras as well." Maybe you just mean in that time period and not specifically those empires? Regardless, there were people in Greece during those times and since as you said you don't actually know who discovered it, it could very easily have been the Greeks. And like I said if the Greeks discovered it the whole point of the article is moot. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem