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400 years ago, this child rebuilt Geometry from scratch

400 years ago, this child rebuilt Geometry from scratch1+ week, 2+ day ago   (407+ words) On a cold Paris evening in the 1630s, a boy knelt on the stone floor, his fingers blackened with charcoal. There were no books around him no diagrams, no formulas, no teacher to correct his lines. Only circles, triangles, and angles…...

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Pythagoras didn’t discover Pythagorean Theorem. Baudhayana did centuries earlier

Pythagoras didn’t discover Pythagorean Theorem. Baudhayana did centuries earlier3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1036+ words) Akshat was working through a standard geometry exercise, the chapter that introduces the right-angled triangle and the formula a + b = c. He paused for a moment, not because the problem was difficult, but because the theorem's name caught his attention. Why…...