TY - JOUR AU - Anderson, James A.D.W. PY - 2020/12/16 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Book Review: The Cult of Pythagoras JF - Transmathematica JA - Transmath VL - 0 IS - 0 SE - Primary Article DO - 10.36285/tm.37 UR - http://transmathematica.org/index.php/journal/article/view/37 SP - AB - <p>We review ``"The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths" by Alberto A. Martinez, 2012. The book sets out a number of mathematical myths and dissolves them by a combination of checking historical sources and calculating results using the mathematics of the time. We pay particular attention to a chapter on division by zero. We record the earliest dates for particular solutions to the problem of division by zero and the ambition to have total mathematical systems.</p> ER -