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yep, me too, like life miss most of it ..

they knew their elementary maths as i heard SOHCAHTOA at least three times ..
they knew something of dat good old Greek Pythagoras



born c. 580 BC, Samos, Ionia
died c. 500, Metapontum, Lucania

Pythagoras, coloured woodcut from Theorica
musicae by Gafurius, printed in …
The Granger Collection, New York


Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the Pythagorean brotherhood that, although religious
in nature, formulated principles that influenced the thought of Plato and Aristotle and contributed to the
development of mathematics and Western rational philosophy (see Pythagoreanism).

Pythagoras migrated to southern Italy about 532 BC, apparently to escape Samos's tyrannical rule,
and established his ethico-political academy at Croton (now Crotone).

It is difficult to distinguish Pythagoras's teachings from those of his disciples. None of his writings
have survived, and Pythagoreans invariably supported their doctrines by indiscriminately citing their
master's authority. Pythagoras, however, is generally credited with the theory of the functional significance
of numbers in the objective world and in music. Other discoveries often attributed to him (e.g., the
incommensurability of the side and diagonal of a square, and the Pythagorean theorem for right triangles)
were probably developed only later by the Pythagorean school. More probably the bulk of the intellectual
tradition originating with Pythagoras himself belongs to mystical wisdom rather than to scientific scholarship.

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9062073/Pythagoras

ps we lived in North Burnaby, almost on the banks of Burnaby Mountain and Simon Fraser Uni
was built, I think, just as i finished .. about '62 .. too bad the link doesn't work .. he he