So I got to thinking the other day: doesn't it just burn you that Pythagoras is given credit for theorems he didn't even discover. What a joke!
posted by Just a Few Things about Scott ... | 6:34 PM
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Dude... that happens ALL THE TIME in the math world (and, I would imagine, many other disciplines as well). It's almost random as to whose name gets assigned to a concept. Often it's someone who popularized the concept, but sometimes not even that!
Even ma boy Pascal didn't "discover" Pascal's triangle. Persians and Chinese were studying it centuries earlier, but Pascal was the first to apply it to probability.
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