The art of maths :: Aliens :: Pythagora's theorem  
         
     

Pythagoras’s Theorem can be drawn in pictures which might allow alien’s to appreciate this Greek discovery. Are there others ways to illustrate mathematical discoveries which avoids strange notation and language?

For more proofs through pictures see either of the books by Roger Nelsen “Proof without words”

 
         
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