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1736. On Notes 1550 and 1597: Pythagora's Theorem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

D. K. Picken
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Mathematical Notes
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 28 , Issue 280 , July 1944 , pp. 118
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1944

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Page no 118 note * Relevant questions of direct and inverse similarity—and of positive and negative areas—are not here apposite.

Page no 118 note † This is a fundamental fact which should never be lost sight of, when “similarity” is being made use of as an elementary method. The pendulum is swinging too far, in this respect, from the rigorous methods of Euclid. (See Gazette, XII, No. 172, p. 195).

Page no 118 note ‡ This should be clearly distinguished from BC 2 = CA 2 + AB 2, in which the terms are properly to be understood as the actual areas (of square figures)—and which is therefore appropriate to the elementary treatment (into which “number” does not enter). So also BC . CD, etc., denote areas (of rectangular figures). The importance of the distinction between the “pure” and the “analytical”, in Geometry, is being too much slurred; the significance—and the beauty—of geometrical analogues (severely restricted) to algebraic forms being thereby missed