On Leonardo da Vinci's proof of the Theorem of Pythagoras

2013/11/04 by Lemmermeyer, Franz
#01A55 #FOS: Mathematics #History and Overview (math.HO)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1311.0816

Abstract

We show that Leonardo da Vinci's well known proof of the Pythagorean theorem is due to Mayer and not to da Vinci.

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