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Congruence, Similarity, and Pythagoras

What geometrical objects qualify as being the same? This lecture explores the concepts of congruence and similarity, which Professor Starbird uses to give two proofs of the Pythagorean theorem, including one discovered by Leonardo da Vinci.

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