something deep and profound behind all these sevens, something just calling out for us to discover it. But I suspect that it is only a pernicious, Pythagorean coincidence. REFERENCES 1. Bstas-Currint, 3. 6, Rooras, M. S., • O'Cosznaz., D. N. Transmission of in- formation about sucrose and saline solu- t

us Diophantine problem we can all recite. “The square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides” The equation for a Pythagorean triangle. The theorem applies to right-angled triangles and there are sixteen whole number solutions, known as Pythagorean triples; three, four, fiv

6 philosophical 246 Index 415 PSPACE problem 168 Pulitzer Prize 365, 367 purpose on the planet 9 puzzle two guards 151 Pygmalion 25 Pythagoras 243 Pythagorean triangle 240 Q quantitative numerical skills 30 quants 71 quantum brains 122 quantum computers 277 quantum cryptography 215, 217 quantum effec

o the wall and a line perpendicular to the wall always combine together to give the same length, as shown below: shadow N This yields the famous Pythagorean theorem, L a = + y2, which high school students have been subjected to for as long as high schools have taught geometry. In three dimensions, this

ture of the universe and omnipresent. Where can the conceptual boundary be drawn between the physical reality of the Babylonian surveyors use of the Pythagorean theorem to calculate distances, that the sum of the squares of the lengths of the two legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the length o

e no idea how to make people learn all the stuff that is part of that subject-based system without threatening them. No one really wants to learn the Pythagorean theorem or information about the Taft Hartley Act. Let scholars know about these things; the average person just doesn’t need to know this stuff. Bu