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It's funny how we say "because of such and such theorem" as if if some greek dude didn't come up with his little story, the height could totally be half of base.
Babylonians had it figured it somewhat out for astronomy purposes about a thousand years before the weird bean hater.
Decolonialize Maths!
We do need short names, but they don't all have to be wyt guys. Pre-globalization, I'm sure many true maths statements were independently discovered by many people.