BEAUTIFUL MATHEMATICS

Proofs, the way they were first written.

Euclid's proof of the Pythagorean theorem, the Indian poets who counted rhythms centuries before Fibonacci, a congressman's trapezoid — we redraw classic proofs step by step, in the colours of Oliver Byrne's 1847 edition of Euclid, and tell their history with sources.

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Longer written explanations of every proof are coming to this site soon.