Ptolemy’s Theorem and the Almagest: we just found the best visual proof in 2000 years
Mathologer · Science & Maths · 32 min · 114 thousand views · published 2024-09-07
We are making history again by presenting a new visual proof of the 2000+ years old Ptolemy's theorem and Ptolemy's inequality. 00:00 Introd
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