The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c15.111
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c15.111
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Proclus (450 A.D.) has attributed the formula (A) to Pythagoras (*c.* 540 B.C.), and the formula (B) to Plato (*c.* 375 B.C.). The formula (C) or (C') follows from Euclid's *Elements*, II. 6.