Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and Company · leaf 276
1 An interesting Japanese proof of this general character may beseen in Y. Mikami, Mathematical Papers from the Far East,p. 127, Leipzig, 1910. LEADING PROPOSITIONS OF BOOK IV 265 ABC. Then because it has been turned through 90 . CAP will be perpendicular to AC. Then ±ab2 = A.i/;.r, and ±BC2 =… … The Pythagorean Theorem, as it is generally called,has had other names. It is not uncommonly calledthe pons asinorum (see page 174) in France. The Arabwriters called it the Figure of the Bride, although the son for this name is unknown: possibly two beingjoined in one has something to do with it.…
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