On Leonardo da Vinci's proof of the Theorem of Pythagoras

Authors: Franz Lemmermeyer

update with a few historical corrections

Abstract: We show that Leonardo da Vinci's well known proof of the Pythagorean theorem is due to Mayer and not to da Vinci.

Submitted to arXiv on 04 Nov. 2013

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