the pythagorean theorem is not named after its discoverer, unfortunately, as historians of mathematics have dated its earliest known usage to well before pythagoras
That's very fair. Indeed, my personal favorite version is Indian, and predates Pythagoras.
I was also trying to name something that most people would at least find familiar... maybe there's a different one, similarly universal, that would be more accurate?
I was also trying to name something that most people would at least find familiar... maybe there's a different one, similarly universal, that would be more accurate?