The Godmother of Geometry

500 years 

Before Christ,

Pythagoras became

The second man

To discover

THE SUPERIOR FORCE







On that ecstatic day when Pythagoras discovered his theorem,
he and the Pythagoreans went chanting through the hills of ancient Greece:

c (squared) = b (squared) + a (squared)

Mrs. Pythagoras was standing in the doorway when he got home, shaking her head.

"You've got it backwards. Go from the smallest to the largest:

a (squared) + b (squared) = c (squared)

"It's alphabetically correct and has a nicer flow to it."
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That day was approximately twenty-five hundred years ago
and revisionist history can legitimately refer
to Pythagoras as "The Second Man."

They refer to the Superior Force not  as "Mrs. Pythagoras"
but as a woman named Theophiline.