 | Mario von der Ruhr - Religion - 2006 - 188 pages
...classification of integers as odd, even, prime, and composite; the Pythagorean theorem, according to which the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other sides (c2 = a2 + b2); the incommensurability of the side and the... | |
 | Michael C. Banner, Alan Torrance - Religion - 2006 - 246 pages
...mathematician may, I presume, achieve such clarity of ideas as to grasp immediately the necessity that the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides. (I cannot inhabit that state of mind, but I am prepared... | |
 | Marcel Danesi - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 209 pages
...mathematician, he or she will instantly recognize it as a specific form standing for the Pythagorean theorem ('the square on the hypotenuse of a rightangled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides'), not as a combination of unrelated variables (letter... | |
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Guido, with a burnt stick in his hand, demonstrating on the smooth paving-stones of the path, that the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides. 
