Subject: Re: [HM] "President Garfield's Proof"
From: Avinoam Mann (MANN@vms.huji.ac.il)
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 18:53:11 EST
Recently I've visited a maths department whose walls were decorated,
among other things, with posters of various proofs of the Pythagorean
Theorem. One of these posters was titled `Oliver Byrne's proof'. That
proof was very familiar: it was Euclid's original proof. Those members of
the department that I asked did not know how `Oliver Byrne' has become a
pseudonym of Euclid. Maybe one of the readers of this list know?
Avinoam Mann
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