Abstract

Archaeologists maintain theories of what happened from the number of steps in each pyramid – mathematical computations that lead to a human sacrifice or a struggle between rival cults[…] The mathematical sense seems to have run riot – everything is symmetrical; it is important that the Pyramid of the Sun should be sixty-six metres high and have five terraces, and the Pyramid of the Moon be fifty-four metres high and have – I forget how many terraces. Heresy was not an aberration of human feeling[…]but a mathematical error. Death was important only as solving an equation[…]One expects to see Q E D written on the great court – the pyramids adding up correctly, the number of terraces multiplied by the number of steps, and divided by the square metres of the surface area, proving – something, something as inhuman as a problem in algebraGreene 1982: 82–3

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