On Leonardo da Vinci's proof of the Theorem of Pythagoras
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2014-01-16 v2
Abstract
We show that Leonardo da Vinci's well known proof of the Pythagorean theorem is due to Mayer and not to da Vinci.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1311.0816,
title = {On Leonardo da Vinci's proof of the Theorem of Pythagoras},
author = {Franz Lemmermeyer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.0816},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
update with a few historical corrections