Mathematician uses AI to refine Euclid's Pythagorean proof

Mathematician Alex Kontorovich spent an hour iterating with AI to rebuild Euclid's classic "windmill" proof of the Pythagorean theorem, replacing triangle-based steps with parallelograms for a more elegant version.

2026-11-14 ~ 2026-11-14 · 2 related posts

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