"However, considering the increasingly clear connections between India and the Babylonian cultural sphere, particularly in recent years, the Indian evidence for the study of Babylonian mathematics certainly comes into play. The difficulties which arise from assuming a direct borrowing by the Greeks from India fall away on the assumption of a common origin in Babylonia.As for Greece itself, the origin of the Pythagorean theorem is, as is well known, shrouded in mystery. However, there is no doubt that Pythagoras and his school were strongly influenced by the Orient. The possibility is therefore obvious that Pythagoras (or his school) had learned the theorem later named after him from oriental sources, which would be very compatible with seeing him as the discoverer of the 'Pythagorean method' for constructing integers that satisfy the relation a² + b² = c². This would only fit with the entire number-speculative tendency of this circle."
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