Here is the familiar image of King Kong atop the Empire State Building. There’s something profoundly incorrect in how he is depicted, a problem that is shared with almost all giant creatures in the movies, be they flies, dragons, or humans. The problem involves some math, which is why I’m discussing it here.

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One of the most important and famous formulas in mathematics is the Pythagorean Theorem: for a right triangle, the square of the long side (hypotenuse) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Using a diagram:

\[ a^{2}+ b^{2}= c^{2}\]
As I have pointed out in other posts, proofs of major results [...]