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The article claims that the Babylonians "discovered" the Pythagorean theorem, but all it shows is that they (probably) believed it to be true. Until we have be
by Tainnor 3y ago
The article claims that the Babylonians "discovered" the Pythagorean theorem, but all it shows is that they (probably) believed it to be true.
Until we have better evidence, it still seems to be the case that (at least in the "West", I'm unfamiliar with e.g. Chinese mathematics) the Greeks were the first to come up with the concept of a mathematical proof that is valid deductively, and not inductively.