Pythagoras’ Revenge
Pythagoras’ Revenge: A Mathematical Mystery
by Arturo Sangalli
-Reviewed by Jodie Liu
The Pythagorean Theorem may be the unquestionable basis for triangular geometry, but its origins are much less certain. Pythagoras himself firmly believed against documenting his reasoning methods and thus left behind no written work – or so it is believed.
More than two millennia after Pythagoras’ death, Arturo Sangalli constructs the “what if?” narrative surrounding the hypothetical contents of a long-lost scroll by the mathematician, with the intent of both corroborating and challenging “the triumph and tyranny of numbers” in modern …
