‘The modern world owes more to the semi-mythical mathematician Pythagoras than most of us can even begin to conceive.’
Posted on 2010/11/01 , tagged as
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Kitty Ferguson’s Pythagoras is reviewed in Irish magazine Politico.
The reviewer says ‘Science writer Kitty Ferguson has done an admirable job in presenting not just the famous theorem, but any number of mathematical concepts that seem to have been first laid down by a group of philosophers and scientists in the Greek colonies in Southern Italy in the 5th century. Her logical approach proves useful in breaking down the various different accounts of the life of Pythagoras, weighing up each account carefully for probability and plausibility.’
