• DOI:10.1086/348837
Corpus ID: 119868978

Thâbit ibn Qurra's Generalization of the Pythagorean Theorem

@article{Sayili1960ThbitIQ,
  title={Th{\^a}bit ibn Qurra's Generalization of the Pythagorean Theorem},
  author={A. Sayili},
  journal={Isis},
  year={1960},
  volume={51},
  pages={35 - 37}
}

• A. Sayili
• Published 1960
• Mathematics
• Isis

IN AN Istanbul manuscript collection of scientific and philosophical articles, there are several monographs by Thabit ibn Qurra, ninth-century mathematician and scientist. One of them is on the "Socratic proof" of the Pythagorean theorem.' This article is a letter written by the author to a friend who was somewhat disappointed with the "Socratic proof" of the Pythagorean theorem, as this proof deals with a special case only, namely, that of an isosceles right triangle, and he wished Thabit to… Expand

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