What do Euclid, 12-year-old Albert Einstein, and American President James A. Garfield have in common?
They all came up with elegant proofs for the famous Pythagorean theorem:
In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem, also known as Pythagoras’s theorem, is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry among the three sides of a right triangle. It states that the square of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
What do Euclid, 12-year-old Albert Einstein, and American President James A. Garfield have in common?
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