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Beyond the West: The Forgotten Voices of History | Anelia Mkrtchyan | TEDxUWCDilijan Youth
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-11 16:14
Does this work. Yes. How many of you know this theorem.Just raise your hands. Okay, so almost everybody. You probably learned in school that Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician and philosopher, discovered this theorem.But what if I told you that wasn't the full story. that this theorem was known in Babylon, ancient Egypt and ancient India thousands of years before that. Let me give you a few more.The quadratic formula which is a fundamental part of schooling was discovered by Alarismi, an Arab mathematician ...