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Moritz Cantor Quotes

1829–1920

Moritz Benedikt Cantor (23 August 1829 – 10 April 1920) was a German historian of mathematics.

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Therefore, we do not doubt for a moment that Pythagoras’ stay in Egypt, that the lessons he received from the priests there, were among the things that were common truth.

So much appears certain to us, that Pythagoras could have been in Babylon.

[…] should it […] boil down to the fact that individual parts of the Sulbasutras are relatively modern interpolations?

Some of the things, which belong particularly to the history of mathematics, we will not refrain from attributing to Pythagoras himself. Among them is the Pythagorean theorem, which we want to preserve under all circumstances. (Cantor 1880: 129)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Moritz Cantor (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.