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The Time a U.S. President Proved the Pythagorean Theorem

Cole Frederick
Cantor’s Paradise
7 min readMay 5, 2024

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James Garfield is one of history’s least memorable presidents. Studies can measure this by asking participants to name as many presidents as possible and see which names are mentioned less frequently. There is good reason for this, Garfield was president during a relatively mundane period in American history between Reconstruction and the Spanish-American war. He also died after less than a…

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