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6d7ebcad | 3 months ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 Background: Turkey sent a 51-year-old guy with no specialized lenses, eye cover, or ear protectio...
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8212bfd2 | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @2388cc31 sorry but the real cool goes to Yeji Kim.

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f9c4ef5b | 1 years ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 The Pythagorean Theorem is at least a thousand years older than Pythagoras. Turns out Babylonians...
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8212bfd2 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @365dd660 wasn’t it pretty much agreed that some of the theorems were not his but attributed to him? He just left a more recent record of them, like most classic scholars.