Curiosities
CuriositiesThe rule of right triangles and the man who discovered it
The rule discovered by the father of a well-known theorem, the Pythagorean theorem, defines the lengths of all three sides of a right triangle
CuriositiesFrom a man's name to a word. The birth of Algorithm
You pronounce his name several times every day; if you are a student, you have a book on your desk with a word as the name of the subject that he introduced. He had no calculator, no A4 paper, and no electricity after sunset, no Lego to describe his approach to children, yet he quietly invented the two ideas running our world today.