Dr. Piers Bursill-Hall, Pythagoras Never Existed. You Have Been Lied to, and All School Maths is False

Speaker: Dr. Piers Bursill-Hall (DPMMS)
Venue: Winstanley Lecture Theatre
Time: 13/10/2014 20:30, drinks from 20:15

Everyone in the Universe has heard of Pythagoras, and knows about the Theorem, and how the Pythagoreans discovered that root-two is irrational. And all of that is false: in fact, just about everything you have been told about ancient mathematics is wrong and rubbish. Hey: Welcome to Cambridge.

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