1984年全国高考历史试题的第一题是填空题,题目是:“我国《 》记录的勾股定理是西周初年商高发现的，它比古希腊数学家的发现要早几个世纪.”供阅卷用的标准答案是要求应试者在第一空处填“周髀算经”,第二空处填“毕达哥拉斯”。 这个题目和它的标准答案,可能说明我国有些同志对勾股定理及其早期历史有些误解。 In 1984, the first question of the national college entrance examination history test was the blank-filling question. The title was: “The Pythagorean theorem recorded in China’s “” was discovered by Shang Gao in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty. It was several centuries earlier than the discovery of ancient Greek mathematicians.” The standard answer for the review paper is to ask the candidate to fill out the “Chou Chou Suo Jing” at the first empty place and “Pythagoras” at the second empty place. This topic and its standard answers may indicate that some of our country’s comrades have misunderstood the Pythagorean Theorem and its early history.