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...Dutch art movement, whose standard-bearer was Piet Mondrian, made more than rules for good design. It was a heavily Platonic philosophy of art, carried out in mighty Pythagorean paintings, that saw pure beauty as the universal means of reaching Utopia. Wrote Mondrian: "Abstract art is opposed to the raw primitive animal nature of man, but it is one with true human nature...
...Pythagorean tick of an English bicycle...
...right triangle can be formed from 1) the line of centers, 2) a line parallel to the common tangent and running through the center of the smaller circle, and 3) the radius of the larger circle. The length of the tangent can then be found by applying the Pythagorean Theorem. "This," concluded the great man, "gives the solution." Then he signed his initials-A.E., for Albert Einstein...
Since his break into print, Rugoff has spent lecherous leisure scanning letters from bobby-soxers of Manhattan and points west who prove through the Pythagorean theorem that Virtue Victorious will be our next national anthem...
...mere knowledge of the Pythagorean triangle relation or the binomial theorem is probably of less immediate value to the average graduate than the knowledge of how to sharpen a knife or to sew on a button," Dr. Moritz writes. "But has an exercise in fundamental thought processes they are invaluable to every individual, no matter what his ultimate work in life may happen...