Credibility of Criticism (Re: NEW: Pythagoras Theorem )

Toke Lindegaard Knudsen tlknudsen at GET2NET.DK
Mon Apr 9 18:17:03 UTC 2001


On 9 Apr 01, at 17:07, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:

> [...] Staal has
> recently made some extremely interesting observations about the details of
> Baudhayana's statement of the theorem, which is more general than
> Pythagoras's, and applies not only to squares on sides, but also, for
> example, to hemispheres. [...]

I was not aware of these observations by Staal, but it sounds very
interesting.  Is it possible that you could provide a reference to
where Staal has written about this topic?

Thank you very much.

Sincerely,
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen





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