Book Review: The Cult of Pythagoras
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https://doi.org/10.36285/tm.37Abstract
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.
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2020-12-16
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Anderson, J. A. (2020). Book Review: The Cult of Pythagoras. Transmathematica. https://doi.org/10.36285/tm.37
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