I'm not grasping why this is "dumb" - there's no indication that she doesn't understand algebra, or who Pythagoras was, or what its application is presently - she's expressing curiosity as to how something we still often struggle with came to be developed in earlier times. https://twitter.com/aIeturner/status/1298372968838508546 …
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Replying to @David_SNuclear @the_moviebob
She's asking what is honestly a fairly deep question about the philosophy and history of mathematics and her school curriculum likely made no effort to cover it, so you can't really blame even the teacher necessarily
11:14 PM - 26 Aug 2020
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