Estimated to have been written around 300BC by Euclid, a greek mathematician, Element's is still considered to be one of the greatest mathematical works ever written.
Euclid's Elements https://is.gd/xadeje
"i. A point is that which has position but not dimensions."'
ii. A line is length without breadth.
v. A surface is that which has length and breadth
He was however not the first to discover Pythagorian theorem.
The Babylonian tablet Plimpton 322 - Chart Source
"We trace the origins of trigonometry to the Old Babylonian era, - SOURCE
"a 3,700-year-old clay tablet dug up in southern Iraq" - SOURCE
George Lucas clearly studied history.
"Edgar J. Banks, the inspiration behind Indiana Jones, who discovered the ancient Babylonian tablet later named Plimpton 322." - SOURCE
This cuneiform tablet "describes the shapes of right-angle triangles using a novel kind of trigonometry based on ratios, not angles and circles." - SOURCE
Look back at the treatsie of Euclid's Elemnents conclusion;
"CONCLUSION. In the foregoing Treatise we have given the Elementary Geometry of the Point, the Line, and the Circle, and figures formed by combinations of these. But it is important to the student to remark, that points and lines, instead of being distinct from, are limiting cases of, circles; and points and planes limiting cases of spheres. Thus, a circle whose radius diminishes to zero becomes a point"
https://is.gd/xadeje
Here is some more information
"in the early 1940s, Otto Neugebauer, an historian of ancient science at Brown University, and his assistant Abraham Sachs found otherwise. They recognized the entries as, in effect, Pythagorean triples: integer solutions of the equation a2+b2= c2." - SOURCE
The Plimpton 322 Tablet and the Babylonian Method of
Generating Pythagorean Triples by Abdulrahman A. Abdulaziz, University of Balamand - SOURCE
Plimpton 322 image source SOURCE
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