But let's take something simple like the Pythagorean Theorem, which we all learned in high school.

不过我们还是说些简单的,比如勾股定理,我们中学里都学过的

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And we learned how to prove the Pythagorean Theorem in Euclidean geometry, starting with the various axioms in Euclidean geometry, ba, ba-ba, ba-ba, ba-ba, ba bum.

我们都学习过,欧几里得几何中对勾股定理的证明方法,从繁杂的欧氏几何的公理开始,邦,邦邦,邦邦,邦邦

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And it turns out there's a variety of proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem.

其实有很多种证明勾股定理的方法

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In 1820, German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss proposed cutting an enormous right triangle into the Siberian pine forest, creating a monument to the Pythagorean theorem big enough to see from outer space.

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