Squares sum as some squares prove Pythagoras right, triangularly

By Geoffrey Mohan

Dec. 6, 2013 1:16 PM PT

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Pythagoras would be proud, 25 centuries later. A few thousand New Yorkers who are mad for math mobbed Manhattan’s Flatiron Building to prove him right on a famed right triangle:

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Geoffrey Mohan

Geoffrey Mohan joined the Los Angeles Times in 2001. He has reported and edited science, environmental issues, fires, wars and breaking news. He is a Cornell graduate and former USC international journalism fellow, and speaks Spanish. He left The Times in April 2020.

Squares sum as some squares prove Pythagoras right, triangularly

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