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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3062545

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[-] Annoyed_Crabby 138 points 4 months ago

You're telling me that Pythagoras Theorem are invented by none other than John Theorem? You want me to believe that?

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 24 points 4 months ago

Yes but also no as Steve von Trig discovered it a thousand years before and of course gets none of the credit.

/ the Pythagorean Theorum is far older than Pyth.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Was he friends with Jean De Rivative?

[-] quinkin@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

And second cousin of Ian T'Gral.

[-] GiveOver@feddit.uk 16 points 4 months ago

Yes and bluetooth was named after the famous king Harold Bluetooth

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 8 points 4 months ago

No it was the Dutch man Piet Agoras

[-] Kolrami@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

You joke, but I always like that the Poynting vector, which points in the direction of flow of an EM wave is named after John Henry Poynting.

I bet that guy was trying so hard to find a vector to get named after him.

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