1. Investigations in Shanghai reveal that three generation of euonymus geometer occur inthe course of a year, with the pupa surviving the winter underground. 大叶黄杨尺蠖在上海一年发生三代，但在室内饲育可完成四代，以蛹在土中越冬。
2. Pythagoras, who is remembered for his theorem about the sides of a right-angled triangle, lived around 540 BC, while Euclid, the best known geometer of the ancient world, lived around 300 BC. 生活在公元前540年左右的毕达哥拉斯，便提出了闻名于世的关于直角三角形各边的 勾股定理 。古代最知名的几何学家欧几里得生活在公元前300年左右。
