May 11, 2007 08:30AM
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Dave L Wrote:
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> Start off with
>
> Gillings: Mathematics in the time of the Pharaohs,
> then
> Petrie: Wisdom of the Egyptians.
>
> These are the best general texts to get you
> started on the subject, but you do need to read
> them both, because they are not congruent in as
> much as the ground they cover.
>
> Your points about the pythagorean theorem and the
> irrational numbers are 'factoids' you have picked
> up somewhere - probably from some of the older
> websites or texts - and are really not
> representative of the reality at all. This is
> understandable as there are reasons you are not
> aware of the full reality that have to do with
> 19th and 20th century politics and its influence
> on Western scholarship.
>
> Dave L
While Egyptians did use some right triangles with integer sides, there is still debate over how they arrived at them, with no indication that it was through the pythagorean theorem (I note this because such use is entailed in many of the attempts to make some geometrical meaning in the Giza plateau). The first general theory/use of the pythagorean theorem would have been circa 600 BCE
Irrational numbers are first noted in India, circa 800-500 BCE. The first proof for their existance comes from the pythagoreans, not Egyptians.
I fail to see what this has to do with politics.
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