Mi última entrada en el Cuaderno, Pitágoras sin palabras, estuvo dedicada al Teorema de Pitágoras y a una serie de demostraciones visuales del mismo.
Comenzaba el artículo comentando que sin lugar a dudas el teorema conocido en la Edad Media como Inventum hecatombe dignum (invento digno de una hecatombe), es el resultado matemático más conocido en nuestra sociedad. Casi con total seguridad, la mayor parte de las personas lo citarían si se les preguntase por un resultado matemático e incluso me atrevería a afirmar que la mayoría de ellas serían capaces de recordar su formulación, es decir, que “dado un triángulo rectángulo, entonces el cuadrado de la hipotenusa es igual a la suma de los cuadrados de los catetos” o en su versión más algebraica, quea2+b2=c2, si a y b son los catetos y c la hipotenusa del triángulo rectángulo. Así mismo, el peso social y cultural de este teorema ha sido de tal magnitud quese ha convertido no solamente en un símbolo de las matemáticas, las escolares y las no escolares, sino también de la educación.
Por esta razón, parece lógico pensar que el Magister matheseos (como es conocido desde la Edad Media, debido a que para ser d
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Amos Eno Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York, June - May
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