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“Pythagoras issues an apology video for stealing his crowning achievement from a piece of clay”

It's even more amazing than that in the case of Rome. To cite just one example, by the time of Constantine I in the mid-300s CE, Rome could support armies totaling 650,000 men. The logistics and organization required to do that are staggering. After the fall of Rome, it would take until the time of Napoleon's Grand Armee in the early 1800s before numbers like that were fielded again. Even today, there are relatively few countries with an active military force of that size. They weren't just sitting around either. Rome was always fighting someone. It speaks to the ability of ancient peoples to organize and support truly massive endeavors and sustain them over literal centuries. I mentioned Napoleon's Grand Armee earlier. It was large, but it only lasted for about 5 years.

So, yes, a ton of technology was lost for a long time, both physical and social/organizational.

We've supposedly just rediscovered how to make Roman concrete in the last few years!

Are you saying that IM67118 Theorem is not recognized?

It is. There's evidence of its use in the Old Babylonian period, evidence in 1800 B.C.E Egypt, India in 700-500 BCE, China during the Han Dynesty at least.

It's very simple to prove, and anywhere you find squares or triangles in architecture, it was used.

It's a matter of debate whether he discovered it independently or not, though we've known he wasn't the first for a while.

People can re-invent and re-discover things. It still happens all the time in this day and age of worldwide massive communications. I'd be surprised if the right angle theorem didn't get discovered thousands of times throughout history.

Everyone learns something new everyday. How often have you seen a TIL and thought, "doesn't everyone know that"

Unless OP actually wrote this article, they aren't saying that. The post text body is literally just the first two paragraphs of the article.

who curses pythagoras?

At the very least that one guy who got drowned for blasphemy by the pythagoras cult, because he proved that the hypotenuse of a triangle with a base of 1 is an irrational number.

Also to be fair I imagine more people are cursing Euler for having his name stapled to half of every theorem and proof it seems.

Who curses Pythagoras?

Pythagoras said you shouldn't eat beans. Fuck him, I need my burritos.

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